'I Can't Go Back Because If I Go Back I Would Die': How Asylum Seekers Manage Talk about Returning Home by Highlighting the Importance of Safety

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 327-339

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

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Discourse analysis; Discursive psychology; Refugees; Rights; Safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935083028     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: 10991298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.2217     Document Type: Article

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