The comfort of strangers: Social work practice with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people in the UK

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Kohli, Ravi K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Refugees; Social work with asylum seeking children; Unaccompanied children

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645036714     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2006.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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