Growing up in exile: Psychosocial challenges facing refugee youth in the United States

Years of Conflict: Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement

Volumn 25, Issue , 2008, Pages 58-86

  Miller, Kenneth E ^a   Kushner, Hallie ^b   McCall, Jill ^c   Martell, Zoë ^d   Kulkarni, Madhur ^e  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c San Francisco State University ^*  (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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