Strengths and challenges in Chinese immigrant families

Great Plains Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-218

  Xie, Xiaolin ^a   Xia, Yan ^b   Zhou, Zhi ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c First Data Analytics   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Chinese immigrants; Family strengths model

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; ASIAN IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE;

ILLINOIS; LINCOLN [NEBRASKA]; NAPERVILLE; NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; OMAHA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7044224809     PISSN: 10525165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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