'Let me go to the city': African asylum seekers, racialization and the politics of space in Israel

Journal of Refugee Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-68

  Yacobi, Haim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

African asylum seekers; Israel; Racialization; Space

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; GEOPOLITICS; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; POPULATION MIGRATION; RACIAL DISPARITY; RACIAL IDENTITY;

AFRICA; ISRAEL;

EID: 79952054422     PISSN: 09516328     EISSN: 14716925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jrs/feq051     Document Type: Article

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