Research ArticleI. The Migrant Experience, Civic Integration, and Social Capital
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Migration Status and Political Knowledge Among Latino Immigrants
Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2016, 2 (3) 22-41; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.02
Susan K. Brown
aAssociate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine
Frank D. Bean
bDistinguished professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy, University of California, Irvine

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