Crux of Refugee Resettlement (eBook)

Rebuilding Social Networks

Andrew Nelson, Alexander Rodlach, Roos Willems (Herausgeber)

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2018
334 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8890-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The Crux of Refugee Resettlement reenvisions third-country resettlement, with a focus on the social networks generated by refugees. Each contributor uses ethnography to highlight refugee voices and experiences. This collection showcases the ways in which community-based solutions rebuild social networks and counteract the alienating conditions of resettlement.

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While the world's refugee population reaches record high numbers, countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement. Combining anthropology with a variety of professional perspectives (education, health care, theology, administration, politics, and social work) ethnography is used to demonstrate the efficacy of programs and interventions that create and nurture social capital in culturally specific and accessible ways. The contributors present case studies of resettlement in the United States, England, Australia, and Canada and contend that social networks have an essential role-are the crux-in the reconfigurations of refugee well-being, belonging, and place-making vis-a-vis the bureaucratic limitations of state and institutional factors. This book includes short contributions from refugees, representatives of resettlement organizations, and government officials, including Jhuma N. Acharya, Bimala Bastola, Khada Bhandari, Kiri Hata, Govin Magar, Madhu Neupane, Natacha Nikokeza, Angela K. Plummer, Lance Rasbridge, Chris Sunderlin, David Thatcher, and John Tluang.

Autor

Andrew Nelson is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Texas.Alexander Rödlach is associate professor of medical anthropology and psychiatry at Creighton University.Roos Willems is cultural anthropologist at the University of Leuven.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 The Competing and Shifting Relevance of Social Capitals in Successful Refugee Resettlement Chapter 2 Guatemalan Mayas in the American Midwest: Creative Intercultural Networking Chapter 3 Re-Imagining Home: Resilience and Social Networks among Resettled Refugees in Columbus, Ohio, United States Chapter 4 Re-constructing Social Ties: The Multi-Ethnic Engagement Patterns of Refugees Residing Within a North Carolina Settlement HouseChapter 5 Community-Based Organizations and Psychosocial Care in the Bhutanese Refugee DiasporaChapter 6 The Pitfalls of the Community Development Approach in Refugee Resettlement: Community Divisions among Bhutanese Refugees in Manchester, United KingdomChapter 7 Refugee Perspectives on Social Networks and the Resettlement Information Landscape in the United StatesChapter 8 The (Re)Generation of Life in Resettlement: Birth and Social Connectedness for Central African Refugee Women in AustraliaChapter 9 The School Socialization of Young Nepali Women Refugees in a Medium-Sized Town in Québec, CanadaChapter 10 “There Will Never Be a Foreclosure in Our Community”: Networks of Dependence in the Secondary Relocation of Nepali-Bhutanese RefugeesChapter 11 Refugee Resettlements Divergent Outcomes: The Role of the Social Network in Housing Type and LocationChapter 12 Emplacing Bhutanese Refugees in the Rust Belt: Work, Networks, and Mobility in Resettlement

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.12.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
• Co-Autor: Surendra Bir Adhikari, Juana Domingo Andres, Liana Chase, Chaitri Desai, Margaret Evans, Beatrice Halsouet, Laura l. Heinemann, Claire Herzog, Nicole Hoellerer, Melanie Kim, Jaclyn Kirsch, Jennifer Kue, Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Margo Minnich, Celeste Mitchell, Sharon D. Morrison, Laeth Nasir, Tracy Nichols, Maura Nsonwu, Georgina Ramsay, Martin Renzo Rosales, Holly Sienkiewicz, Joseph Stadler, Kathryn Stam, Kelly Yotebieng
• Mitarbeit: Kommentare: Jhuma N. Acharya, Lance Rasbridge, Chris Sunderlin, David Thatcher, John Tluang, Bimala Bastola, Khada Bhandari, Jay Breneman, Kiri Hata, Govin Magar, Madhu Neupane, Natacha Nikokeza, Angela K. Plummer
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Tables; - 1 Graphs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Citizenship and belonging • ethnography • Integration • Public Health • Refugee Policy • Refugee resettlement • Social capital • Social Networks • space and place
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8890-5 / 1498588905
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8890-4 / 9781498588904