‘Blaming the victim’: An analysis of press representation of refugees and asylum-seekers in the United Kingdom in the 1990s

Media and Migration: Constructions of Mobility and Difference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 53-70

  Kaye, Ronald ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85071115103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203458549-9     Document Type: Chapter

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