Compelling culture: The rhetoric of assimilation among Samoan migrants in the United States

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 787-816

  Gershon, Ilana ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Assimilation; Child rearing; Choice; Community workers; Parent child relations; Samoan migrants

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; CULTURAL IDENTITY; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547685942     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870701491812     Document Type: Article

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