'I'M NOT HAPPY, BUT I'M OK': How asylum seekers manage talk about difficulties in their host country

Critical Discourse Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-34

  Goodman, Simon ^a   Burke, Shani ^a   Liebling, Helen ^a   Zasada, Daniel ^b  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b The Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

asylum seekers; complaints; discourse analysis; discursive psychology; ideological dilemmas; refugees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890807762     PISSN: 17405904     EISSN: 17405912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2013.836114     Document Type: Article

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