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No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19

Marci Ybarra, Frania Mendoza Lua
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2023, 9 (3) 159-183; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.07
Marci Ybarra
aAssociate professor in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
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Frania Mendoza Lua
bPhD candidate in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago, United States
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