Granting asylum or not? Migration board personnel's beliefs about deception

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-50

  Granhag, Pär Anders ^a   Strömwall, Leif A ^a   Hartwig, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Asylum process; Cues to deception; Experts' beliefs; Reliability assessments

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CRIME;

EID: 12244267752     PISSN: 1369183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369183042000305672     Document Type: Article

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