Asian business strategies in the United Kingdom: A qualitative assessment

Asian Migrants and European Labour Markets: Patterns and Processes of Immigrant Labour Market Insertion in Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 222-237

  Ram, Monder ^a   Jones, Trevor ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84905870729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203016053     Document Type: Chapter

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