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The Crux of Refugee Resettlement reenvisions third-country resettlement. 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.
List of contents
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 House
Chapter 5 Community-Based Organizations and Psychosocial Care in the Bhutanese Refugee Diaspora
Chapter 6 The Pitfalls of the Community Development Approach in Refugee Resettlement: Community Divisions among Bhutanese Refugees in Manchester, United Kingdom
Chapter 7 Refugee Perspectives on Social Networks and the Resettlement Information Landscape in the United States
Chapter 8 The (Re)Generation of Life in Resettlement: Birth and Social Connectedness for Central African Refugee Women in Australia
Chapter 9 The School Socialization of Young Nepali Women Refugees in a Medium-Sized Town in Québec, Canada
Chapter 10 "There Will Never Be a Foreclosure in Our Community": Networks of Dependence in the Secondary Relocation of Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees
Chapter 11 Refugee Resettlements Divergent Outcomes: The Role of the Social Network in Housing Type and Location
Chapter 12 Emplacing Bhutanese Refugees in the Rust Belt: Work, Networks, and Mobility in Resettlement
About the author
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.
