Social Movements and Contentious Politics

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 217-233

  Meyer, David S ^a   Reyes, Daisy Verduzco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective Identity; Ethnic Identity; Political Opportunity; Social Movement; Undocumented Immigrant

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956371908     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-68930-2_12     Document Type: Chapter

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