Can refugees benefit the state? Refugee resources and African statebuilding

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 577-596

  Jacobsen, Karen ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; HUMANITARIAN AID; REFUGEE; SECURITY THREAT; STATE BUILDING;

AFRICA;

EID: 0036903682     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X02004081     Document Type: Article

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