Exploring identity, culture, and suffering with a Kashmiri Sikh refugee

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1654-1665

  Aggarwal, Neil Krishan ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hinduism; Interviewing strategy; Jammu; Kashmir; Refugee health; Sikhism

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONSHIP; EMIGRATION; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; REFUGEE; RELIGION; SECTARIANISM; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; REFUGEE; RELIGION; SECULARISM; SOCIOLOGY;

CULTURE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; REFUGEES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34548646593     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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