Second-Generation Decline or Advantage? Latino Assimilation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

International Migration Review

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 155-190

  Tran, Van C ^a   Valdez, Nicol M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LATINO PEOPLE; POPULATION DECLINE;

EID: 84940173710     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: 17477379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imre.12192     Document Type: Article

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