The commodification of ethnicity in an Asian Indian economy in Chicago

City and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-223

  Bubinas, Kathleen ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee at Waukesha   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Indian immigrants; Chicago labor market; Ethnic capital; Ethnic economy; Immigrants

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LABOR MARKET; URBAN ECONOMY;

EID: 0742287754     PISSN: 08930465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/city.2003.15.2.195     Document Type: Article

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