Success attained, deterred, and denied: Divergent pathways to social mobility in los angeles's new second generation

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 620, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-61

  Zhou, Min ^a,b   Lee, Jennifer ^c   Vallejo, Jody Agius ^d   Tafoya Estrada, Rosaura ^b   Xiong, Yang Sao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Chinese; Immigration; Mexican; Mobility; Success; The new second generation; Vietnamese

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549129242     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716208322586     Document Type: Article

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