A civic trend within ethnic transnationalism? Some insights from classical social theory and the Chinese American experience

Global Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 391-408

  Wheeler, Norton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPETITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PUBLIC POLICY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

CHINESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE; CIVIC TREND; ETHNIC TRANSNATIONALISM; LIBERAL MIGRATION REGIMES;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ACCULTURATION; ASIAN IMMIGRANT; ETHNICITY; GLOBALIZATION; IMMIGRANT POPULATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12344295575     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2004.00100.x     Document Type: Review

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