Domestic Violence and Gender-Based Persecution: How Refugee Adjudicators Judge Women Seeking Refuge from Spousal Violence—and Why Reform Is Needed
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عنوان ژورنال: Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
سال: 1969
ISSN: 1920-7336,0229-5113
DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.32085