{"product_id":"the-crux-of-refugee-resettlement-9781498588898","title":"The Crux of Refugee Resettlement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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 roleare the cruxin the reconfigurations of refugee well-being, belonging, and place-making vis-à-vis the bureaucratic limitations of state and institutional factors. This book includes short contributions from refugees, representatives of resettlement organizations, and governm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Crux of Refugee Resettlement is an intriguing and uplifting exploration of the way that resettled refugees adapt to their new homes, focusing on the limitations of formal assistance programs and the central role played by social networks, solidarity and community-based action in the integration process. This is essential reading for policymakers, practitioners and researchers engaged in the issue of refugee resettlement. -- Jeff Crisp, formerly at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees\u003cbr\u003eThe Crux of Refugee Resettlement has strongly advanced the field of migration and refugee studies with this deeply insightful and comprehensive exploration of the complexities in the lives of displaced peoples and their making (remaking) of new homes. This human-centered book understands refugee strengths and possibilities while also discussing internal weaknesses and conflicts of the community, revealing a treasure of qualitative and partnership methodologies that have allowed the authors to gain trust of and access to the refugee and immigrant communities. It demonstrates the social capital, strengths, and strategies that refugees utilize to overcome poorly constructed and administered government policies, and presents new methods of understanding best practices.  Indeed, it becomes evident that refugees have much to teach all of us. -- Alan LeBaron, Kennesaw State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040853557591,"sku":"9781498588898","price":98.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498588898.jpg?v=1750948065","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-crux-of-refugee-resettlement-9781498588898","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}