Immigration Reform and the Potential for Psychosocial Trauma: The Missing Link of Lived Human Experience

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-77

  Levers, Lisa Lopez ^a   Hyatt Burkhart, Debra ^b  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; IMMIGRATION POLICY; LEGISLATION; POLICY REFORM; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871364741     PISSN: 15297489     EISSN: 15302415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2011.01254.x     Document Type: Article

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