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Ciara Bracken-Roche, Expanding the Gaze: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance. (2017) Surveillance & Society.
In Young Park and Marquisha Lawrence, Understanding the Ethnic Self: A Qualitative Study of 1.5 Generation Korean American Immigrants. (2022) Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies.
Stephen Thompson, The Need and Desire for Inclusive Universities: A Perspective from Development Studies. (2021) Social Inclusion.
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