Reimagining Refugee Resettlement: Collaboration, Endurance, and Temporality in the Displacement Assemblage
Research Mentor(s)
Ella Jae Fisher
Description
As the number of forcibly displaced people increases globally, strategies for resettlement in the United States require reform to accommodate and support the individuals within resettlement. Decrease in funding for refugee resettlement over the past decade has forced resettlement agencies to navigate resettlement with limited resources, these events have put additional strain on both the service providers (caseworkers, employees, and volunteers) and the refugee clients they support. This project will explore the obstacles and expectations within U.S. resettlement from both service provider and refugee client perspectives to collaboratively identify and conceptualize strategies that mitigate feelings of exhaustion and promote long-term endurance in the liminal spaces of resettlement. Using qualitative methods to collaboratively explore resettlement with service providers and refugee clients is an opportunity to explore the entanglements of international and domestic resettlement policies, how these policies affect individuals, and what strategies could be implemented to advocate for a more human centered model of resettlement.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
May 2022
End Date
May 2022
Location
SMATE Library (Bellingham, Wash.)
Department
Anthropology
Genre/Form
student projects; posters
Type
Image
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Reimagining Refugee Resettlement: Collaboration, Endurance, and Temporality in the Displacement Assemblage
SMATE Library (Bellingham, Wash.)
As the number of forcibly displaced people increases globally, strategies for resettlement in the United States require reform to accommodate and support the individuals within resettlement. Decrease in funding for refugee resettlement over the past decade has forced resettlement agencies to navigate resettlement with limited resources, these events have put additional strain on both the service providers (caseworkers, employees, and volunteers) and the refugee clients they support. This project will explore the obstacles and expectations within U.S. resettlement from both service provider and refugee client perspectives to collaboratively identify and conceptualize strategies that mitigate feelings of exhaustion and promote long-term endurance in the liminal spaces of resettlement. Using qualitative methods to collaboratively explore resettlement with service providers and refugee clients is an opportunity to explore the entanglements of international and domestic resettlement policies, how these policies affect individuals, and what strategies could be implemented to advocate for a more human centered model of resettlement.