Belonging to 'Chinatown': A study of Asian boarders in a West Australian private boarding school

International Studies in Sociology of Education

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-66

  Yeo, Wee Loon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian boarding school; Ethnography; Group identity; Southeast Asian students

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951559534     PISSN: 09620214     EISSN: 17475066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09620211003655655     Document Type: Article

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