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Introduction: Immigration and Changing Identities
Nancy Foner, Kay Deaux, Katharine M. Donato
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 1-25; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.01
Nancy Foner
aDistinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Kay Deaux
bDistinguished Professor Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and visiting research scholar in psychology at New York University
Katharine M. Donato
cDonald G. Herzberg Professor of International Migration and director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service

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