Legal issues in work with asylum seekers

Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 641-658

  Herlihy, Jane ^b   Ferstman, Carla ^b   Turner, Stuart W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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