Invisible integration: How bureaucratic, academic and social categories obscure integrated refugees

Journal of Refugee Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 476-497

  Polzer, Tara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Categorization; Integration; Invisibility; Mozambican refugees; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; CIVIL WAR; MIGRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUGEE;

AFRICA; BUSHBUCKRIDGE; LIMPOPO; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WITWATERSRAND;

EID: 57249105330     PISSN: 09516328     EISSN: 14716925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/fen038     Document Type: Article

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