Latino/a entrepreneurship in the United States: A strategy of survival and economic mobility

Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 168-180

  Valdez, Zulema ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84892259251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71943-6_11     Document Type: Chapter

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