The paradox of ethnicization and assimilation: The development of ethnic organizations in the Chinese immigrant community in the United States

Voluntary Organizations in The Chinese Diaspora

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 231-252

  Min, Zhou ^a   Kim, Rebecca Y ^b  

^a NARA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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