“The ties that bind”: The Role of Family and Ethnic Networks in the Settlement of Polish Migrants in Pennsylvania, 1890-1940

History of the Family

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 111-148

  Versteegh, Pien ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0141696491     PISSN: 1081602X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-602X(00)00032-4     Document Type: Article

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