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Research ArticleI. The Migrant Experience, Civic Integration, and Social Capital
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Emigrant Politics, Immigrant Engagement: Homeland Ties and Immigrant Political Identity in the United States

Roger Waldinger, Lauren Duquette-Rury
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2016, 2 (3) 42-59; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.03
Roger Waldinger
aDistinguished professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles
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