The Creation of an Ethnic Economy: Indochinese Business Expansion in Saint PaulFootnote

* This paper would not have been possible without the assistance of Mao Vang and Kent Treichel. Karen Andrews helped produce Figure 2. I am also grateful to funding provided by the University of St. Thomas and the Association of American Geographers.

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