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Promoters and barriers to work: a comparative study of refugees versus immigrants in the United States. 工作的促进因素和障碍：对美国难民和移民的比较研究。

The new Iraqi journal of medicine Pub Date : 2012-01-01

Hikmet Jamil, Samer S Kanno, Rami Abo-Shasha, Mazen M AlSaqa, Monty Fakhouri, Bengt B Arnetz

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