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The Sojourner Experience of Yemeni American High School Students: An Ethnographic Portrait

Loukia Sarroub
Harvard Educational Review September 2001, 71 (3) 390-416; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.71.3.m8190855254316p1
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