Zones of indistinction: Family life in Danish asylum centres

Distinktion

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-112

  Vitus, Kathrine ^a  

^a VIVE THE DANISH CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Bio politics; Denmark; Family breakdown; Illness; Resistance; The camp

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893128206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21599149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2011.549349     Document Type: Article

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