Informal places of protection: Congolese refugees’ ‘communities of trust’ in Kampala, UgandaFootnote^*

* The research was originally conducted as a doctoral thesis at the School of Geography (in affiliation with the Refugee Studies Centre), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. This article was written in 2015 when I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, Finland.

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