Sometimes you have to go under water to come up: A poetic, critical realist approach to documenting the voices of homeless immigrant women

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 203-220

  Hordyk, Shawn Renee ^a   Soltane, Sonia Ben ^a   Hanley, Jill ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical realism; feminism; homelessness; immigrant women; poetic inquiry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897821165     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325013491448     Document Type: Article

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