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Varieties of Ethnic Self-Identities: Children of Immigrants in Middle Adulthood
Cynthia Feliciano, Rubén G. Rumbaut
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 26-46; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.02
Cynthia Feliciano
aprofessor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine
Rubén G. Rumbaut
aprofessor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine

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Cynthia Feliciano, Rubén G. Rumbaut
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Aug 2018, 4 (5) 26-46; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.02
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