Images of a wounded homeland: Sierra Leonean children and the new heart of darkness

Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 114-134

  D'Alisera, JoAnn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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