Back home? Refugees' experiences of their first visit back to their country of origin

Journal of Refugee Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 415-432

  Muggeridge, Helen ^a   Doná, Giorgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Identity; Integration; Meaning of home; Myth of return; Refugee cycle; Repatriation

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; DECISION MAKING; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; RACIAL IDENTITY; REFUGEE;

EID: 33845628174     PISSN: 09516328     EISSN: 14716925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/refuge/fel020     Document Type: Article

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