African Immigrant Families in the United States: Surviving the Sociocultural Tide

The Family Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 265-270

  Obiakor, Festus E ^a,b   Afoláyan, Michael O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

African; African child; African family; African immigrant; cultural immigrant; immigrant; immigrant child

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997967341     PISSN: 10664807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1066480707301425     Document Type: Article

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