Sexual and gender-based violence in the European asylum and reception sector: A perpetuum mobile?

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 90-96

  Keygnaert, Ines ^a   Dias, Sonia F ^b   Degomme, Olivier ^a   Devillé, Walter ^c   Kennedy, Patricia ^d   Kováts, András ^e   De Meyer, Sara ^a   Vettenburg, Nicole ^a   Roelens, Kristien ^a   Temmerman, Marleen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e International Business School Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CRIME VICTIM; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; REFUGEE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CRIME VICTIMS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; SEX FACTORS; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922439715     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/cku066     Document Type: Article

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