Reaching Out to Unaccompanied Minors (UAM) and Promoting Delivery of Services

2014-07-01
Karataş, Kasım
Rittersberger, Helga İda
Atasü Topcuoğlu, Reyhan
Demir, O. Oğuzhan
unaccompanied migrant children in IOM, Turkish Ministry for Family and Social Policy, Directorate of General Services, Norwegian Embassy, Ministry of Interior, Directorate of General Security, published in English and Turkish

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Citation Formats
K. Karataş, H. İ. Rittersberger, R. Atasü Topcuoğlu, and O. O. Demir, Reaching Out to Unaccompanied Minors (UAM) and Promoting Delivery of Services. 2014.