Aspirational place-making and digital practices of refugees in the Netherlands.
While much has been written about the experience of human displacement and the trauma of exile, our understanding of how refugees (re)build a sense of place is underemphasised. The literature on refugee integration has mainly focused on the outcomes of integration policies as well as on the perspect...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 14; pp. 3716 - 3734 |
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