Competing interests: Toronto's Chinese immigrant associations and the politics of multiculturalism

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-140

  Salaff, Janet ^a,b   Chan, Pearl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diaspora; Ethnic associations; Head tax; Immigrants; Multiculturalism; Organisational coupling; Settlement services

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; DIASPORA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOPOLITICS; IMMIGRANT; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MULTICULTURALISM; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY;

ASIA; CANADA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 33947515621     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.430     Document Type: Article

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