Research ArticleI. The Migrant Experience, Civic Integration, and Social Capital
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Politicized Immigrant Identity, Spanish-Language Media, and Political Mobilization in 2012
Sergio I. Garcia-Rios, Matt A. Barreto
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2016, 2 (3) 78-96; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.05
Sergio I. Garcia-Rios
aAssistant professor of government and Latino studies at Cornell University
Matt A. Barreto
bProfessor of political science and Chicana/o studies at the University of California, Los Angeles

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