Assimilation and resistance: How language and culture influence gender identity negotiation in first-generation Vietnamese immigrant youth

The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 172-201

  Nguyen, Diem T ^a   Stritikus, Tom ^a  

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