'Taking advantage'or fleeing persecution? Opposing accounts of asylum seeking

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 648-667

  Every, Danielle ^a   Augoustinos, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Asylum seeking; Counter discourses; Critical discourse analysis; Political discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249128759     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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