Circumcision debates and asylum cases: Intersecting arenas, contested values, and tangled webs

Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challge in Liberal Democracies

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 309-343

  Kratz, Corinne A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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