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Social Identities
Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
Volume 18, 2012 - Issue 3
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‘We are chameleons’: identity capital in a multicultural workplace

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Pages 281-297 | Received 19 Apr 2010, Published online: 22 Feb 2012

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