Refugee warriors or war refugees? Iraqi refugees' predicament in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon

Mediterranean Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 343-363

  Leenders, Reinoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; REFUGEE; RESEARCH WORK; SECURITY THREAT; WAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 70649086999     PISSN: 13629395     EISSN: 17439418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13629390903346848     Document Type: Article

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