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Citizenship Studies Volume 21, 2017 - Issue 6: Contested Spaces of Citizenship: Camps, Borders and Urban Encounters
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‘I finally found my place’: a political ethnography of the Maximiliaan refugee camp in Brussels

Anika DepraetereDepartment of Sociology, University of Antwerp & Department of Educational Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumCorrespondence[email protected]
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Stijn OosterlynckDepartment of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
Pages 693-709 | Received 20 Feb 2017, Accepted 13 Apr 2017, Published online: 23 Jun 2017

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