Parents and children across borders legal instability and intergenerational relations in Guatemalan and Salvadoran families

Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 160-189

  Menjívar, Cecilia ^a   Abrego, Leisy ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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