The Experience of Belonging in Youth from Refugee Backgrounds: A Narrative Perspective.
Objective: To gain a qualitative understanding of belonging as reflected in the experience of newly resettled young people from refugee backgrounds. Drawing upon a narrative perspective premised on a postmodern social constructivist model, the study is based on the understanding that belonging is a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 28; no. 7; pp. 1977 - 1991 |
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