'Hearing the Right Gaps': Enabling and Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence within the UK Asylum Process

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-296

  Baillot, Helen ^c   Cowan, Sharon ^a   Munro, Vanessa E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

asylum; culture; disclosure; narrative; Rape; trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866018967     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663912444945     Document Type: Review

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