Ethnicity as Social Capital: Community-Based institutions and embedded networks of social relations

Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Comparing the USA and UK

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 131-159

  Zhou, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84928351663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511489228.006     Document Type: Chapter

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