Friends, corporate parents and pentecostal churches : unaccompanied asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo in London

Åsa Maria Charlotte Wahlström

The thesis provides an ethnographic study of the experiences of lone asylum seekers who are provided local authority care in the London Borough of Hillingdon.The research builds on sixteen months" ethnographic fieldwork between April 2006 and September 2007, examining how the young people adapted to