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Making Refuge : Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine /

How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Cathe...

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Autor principal: Besteman, Catherine Lowe (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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