On the surface, the refugee resettlement process, and public assistance programs that newcomers rely upon appear gender-neutral, and yet their implementation has gendered effects. I will detail how primary caregivers and primary income-earners within the case study, differently and relationally manage ...
Research has found that in populations where prior to resettlement, male refugees occupied traditional roles within hierarchical family structures such as ‘breadwinners’, a perceived loss of this status and change in family roles had negative impacts upon their sense of identity after resettlement [4...
Immigration and Naturalization Service have written to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging that two White House-ordered reports on refugee resettlement costs be balanced by also tallying the benefits refugees bring to the United States. Reuters in June first reported discord over the repo...
For the first six months a non-profit refugee resettlement agency helped them find jobs, registered their sons in school and provided them with rent, health insurance, and cash assistance. This institutional support was designed to facilitate refugees' successful transition to life in the US, ...
There is growing consensus among social scientists that processes of displacement and third-country resettlement are gendered. However, analyses of US refugee integration and related discussions on how to measure its outcomes often minimize the effects of gender and its correlate, caring. These studies...