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Description
Nearly 1 out of every 100 people worldwide is a person displaced and seeking asylum, imperiled by persecution and war. Half the World takes measure of that staggering crisis in stories from a city transformed.
ISBN
9780990736356
Publisher
Boise State University
Publication Date
2017
City
Boise
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Shallat, Todd (editor); Rubinow Hodges, Kathleen (editor); Jones, Errol D. (editor); and Winslow, Laura (editor), "Half the World: Refugees Transform the City of Trees" (2017). Faculty & Staff Authored Books. 481.
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/fac_books/481
Comments
Half the World: Refugees Transform the City of Trees is volume 8 of the Investigate Boise Community Research Series