Work Primacy and the Social Incorporation of Unaccompanied, Undocumented Latinx Youth in the United States.
This study investigates the social incorporation of unaccompanied, undocumented Latinx youth workers as they come of age in the United States. Based on research with undocumented Central American and Mexican young adults who grew up as unaccompanied minors in Los Angeles, California, the data reveal...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 101; no. 3; pp. 1372 - 1396 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2023
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