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Living in Two Worlds: An Institutional Ethnographic Study of the Family Reunification Process among Unaccompanied Minor and Young Refugee Girls in Norway Cover

Living in Two Worlds: An Institutional Ethnographic Study of the Family Reunification Process among Unaccompanied Minor and Young Refugee Girls in Norway

Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Volume 15 (2025): Issue 2
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Open Access
|Nov 2024
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.711 | Journal eISSN: 1799-649X
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Language: English
Page range: 5 - 5
Submitted on: Apr 12, 2023
Accepted on: Jun 17, 2024
Published on: Nov 26, 2024
Published by: Helsinki University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Unaccompanied minor and young refugees,
Family reunification,
Institutional ethnography,
Ruling relations,
Bureaucratic violence

© 2024 Ann-Torill Tørrisplass, published by Helsinki University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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