Returning strangers: The children of Malawian refugees come 'home'?

Journal of Refugee Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 264-283

  Cornish, Flora ^a   Peltzer, Karl ^b   Maclachlan, Malcolm ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CHILD; REFUGEE; RETURN MIGRATION;

MALAWI;

EID: 0033508237     PISSN: 09516328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/12.3.264     Document Type: Article

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