Model Americans, quintessential Greeks: Ethnic success and assimilation in diaspora

Diaspora

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 279-327

  Anagnostou, Yiorgos ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34247462357     PISSN: 10442057     EISSN: 19111568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dsp.2011.0046     Document Type: Article

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