Immigrant Suburban Settlement and the "Threat" to Middle Class Status and Identity: The Case of Farmers Branch, Texas

International Migration

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-30

  Brettell, Caroline B ^a   Nibbs, Faith G ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; IMMIGRANT; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; POPULATION GROWTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SUBURBAN AREA;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650060819     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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