Post conflict identities: Affiliations and practices of somali asylum seeker children

Children's Geographies

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 203-217

  Sporton, Deborah ^a   Valentine, Gill ^b   Nielsen, Katrine Bang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asylum seeker; Children; Identity; Somali

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349106147     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733280600807062     Document Type: Article

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