An educational policy for negotiating transnationalism: The Dominican community in New York City

Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 147-164

  Utakis, Sharon ^a   Pita, Marianne D ^a  

^a BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410611840     Document Type: Chapter

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