Constructing a Crisis: The Role of Immigration Detention in Malta

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 687-700

  Mainwaring, Cetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crisis; European Union; Immigration detention; Irregular immigration; Malta; Small state

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNMENT; IMMIGRATION POLICY; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; REFUGEE;

MALTA;

EID: 84866157871     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1721     Document Type: Article

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