"Too busy working, no time for talking": Chinese small entrepreneurs, social mobility, and the transfer of cultural identity in Belgium, Britain, and the Netherlands at the margins of multicultural discourse

The Social Construction of Diversity: Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 83-103

  Pang, Ching Lin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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