From refugees to citizens? How refugee youth in the Dadaab camps of Kenya use education to challenge their status as non-citizens

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From refugees to citizens? How refugee youth in the Dadaab camps of Kenya use education to challenge their status as non-citizens. / Aden, Hassan; Edle, Abdirahman; Horst, Cindy.

In: Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2023, p. 736-755.

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Harvard

Aden, H, Edle, A & Horst, C 2023, 'From refugees to citizens? How refugee youth in the Dadaab camps of Kenya use education to challenge their status as non-citizens', Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 736-755. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead036

APA

Aden, H., Edle, A., & Horst, C. (2023). From refugees to citizens? How refugee youth in the Dadaab camps of Kenya use education to challenge their status as non-citizens. Journal of Refugee Studies, 36(4), 736-755. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead036

Vancouver

Aden H, Edle A, Horst C. From refugees to citizens? How refugee youth in the Dadaab camps of Kenya use education to challenge their status as non-citizens. Journal of Refugee Studies. 2023;36(4):736-755. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead036

Author

Aden, Hassan ; Edle, Abdirahman ; Horst, Cindy. / From refugees to citizens? How refugee youth in the Dadaab camps of Kenya use education to challenge their status as non-citizens. In: Journal of Refugee Studies. 2023 ; Vol. 36, No. 4. pp. 736-755.

Bibtex

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