The new latin nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States

Du Bois Review

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-301

  Portes, Alejandro ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Border Enforcement; Immigrant Labor; Migrant Transnationalism; Second Generation; Segmented Assimilation

Indexed keywords

EID: 66249150950     PISSN: 1742058X     EISSN: 17420598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X07070166     Document Type: Article

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