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Protective ethnicity: how Armenian immigrants’ extracurricular youth organisations redistribute cultural capital to the second-generation in Los Angeles

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Pages 2366-2386 | Received 13 Nov 2017, Accepted 02 Jul 2018, Published online: 09 Jul 2018

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