The Media's Role in Immigrant Adaptation: How First-year Haitians in Miami Use the Media

Journalism and Communication Monographs

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 158-196

  Walker, Doug ^a  

^a Asbury College   (United States)

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EID: 84981170630     PISSN: 15226379     EISSN: 21614342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152263799900100301     Document Type: Article

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