'I'm just me!': Children talking beyond ethnic and religious identities

Childhood

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-48

  Moinian, Farzaneh ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Box 34103   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Ethnicity; Identity; Perspective of the child

Indexed keywords

EID: 60049096144     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: 14617013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568208101689     Document Type: Article

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