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Recent large-scale American migrations continue to shape the face of this nation, revitalizing and reweaving the foreign fabric that characterized American society during the early part of the twentieth century (Portes & Rumbaut, 1990). The effects of these immigrations have sweeping consequences for American psychology (Rogler, 1994).
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Llorente, A.M., Taussig, I.M., Satz, P., Perez, L.M. (2000). Trends in American Immigration. In: Fletcher-Janzen, E., Strickland, T.L., Reynolds, C.R. (eds) Handbook of Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology. Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4219-3_20
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