Rethinking residential assimilation: The case of a Chinese ethnoburb in the San Gabriel Valley, California

Amerasia Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 55-83

  Zhou, Min ^a   Tseng, Yen Fen ^b   Kim, Rebecca Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Sociology ^*

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EID: 63149135760     PISSN: 00447471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17953/amer.34.3.y08124j33ut846v0     Document Type: Article

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