British Adolescents' and Young Adults' Understanding and Reasoning About the Religious and Nonreligious Rights of Asylum-Seeker Youth

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1102-1115

  Tenenbaum, Harriet R ^a   Ruck, Martin D ^b  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; RELIGION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LONDON; MALE; REFUGEES; RELIGION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860455890     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01755.x     Document Type: Article

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