Barriers to high-school completion among immigrant and later-generation Latinos in the USA: Language, ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Ethnicities

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-342

  Lutz, Amy ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Educational attainment; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547872340     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796807080232     Document Type: Article

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