Highly skilled but unwelcome in politics: Asian Indians and Chinese in a New Jersey suburb

Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 222-243

  Aptekar, Sofya ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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