Between a rock and a hard place: Negotiating age and identity in the UK asylum system

Children, Politics and Communication: Participation at the Margins

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 89-106

  Crawley, Heaven ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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