Explaining the surge in citizenship applications in the 1990s: Lawful permanent residents in Texas

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1013-1025

  Freeman, Gary P ^a   Plascencia, Luis F B ^a   Baker, Susan González ^a   Orozco, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Inter American Dialogue   (United States)

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EID: 0036893795     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1540-6237.00130     Document Type: Article

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