Title: Hispanic Americans: Comparative Considerations and the Educational Problems of Children*
Abstract: International MigrationVolume 25, Issue 2 p. 141-164 Hispanic Americans: Comparative Considerations and the Educational Problems of Children* M.M. Suarez-Orozco, M.M. Suarez-Orozco Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, (USA).Search for more papers by this author M.M. Suarez-Orozco, M.M. Suarez-Orozco Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, (USA).Search for more papers by this author First published: June 1987 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2435.1987.tb00577.xCitations: 5 * Original Version of a paper published in translation (Dutch) in Cultuur en Migratie', 1986, 2. 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