Refugees, gender-based violence and resistance: A case study of somali refugee women in Kenya

Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 231-251

  Abdi, Awa Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315546575-17     Document Type: Chapter

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