Engendering immigrant psychology: An intersectionality perspective

Sex Roles

Volumn 59, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 326-336

  Mahalingam, Ramaswami ^a   Balan, Sundari ^a   Haritatos, Jana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HopeLab   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Gender; John Henryism; Marginality; Model minority myth

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249156416     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-008-9495-2     Document Type: Article

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