Deficiencies in UK asylum data: Practical and theoretical challenges

Journal of Refugee Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-49

  Stewart, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; REFUGEE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2042505714     PISSN: 09516328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/17.1.29     Document Type: Article

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