Failures of imagination: The refugee's predicament

Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 363-381

  Kirmayer, Laurence J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511500008.020     Document Type: Chapter

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