(Mis)trusted Contact: Resettlement Knowledge Assets and the Third Space of Refugee Reception

IF 0.9 Q3 DEMOGRAPHY
Refuge Pub Date : 2019-09-22 DOI:10.7202/1064817ar
C. Kyriakides, Arthur McLuhan, Karen Anderson, Lubna Bajjali, N. Elgendy
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Abstract

Drawing on interviews with 204 participants in two studies of privately sponsored refugee resettlement in Ontario, Canada, we explore the resettlement effects of pre-arrival contact on the interactional dynamics between private sponsors and privately sponsored Syrian refugees. Those who had regular pre-arrival contact via digital applications such as Facebook, Skype, and Whatsapp reported more positive, “successful” resettlement experiences than those who had not. This pre-arrival interactive dynamic has theoretical/conceptual implications beyond an understanding of the benefits of “information exchange.” Pre-arrival sponsor-sponsored interaction is not bound by the contexts of displacement or resettlement, but constitutes a “third space” of reception, co-created through trusted contact. We develop the concept of “resettlement knowledge assets” and report on how these assets emerge through pre-arrival trust building, modify the resettlement expectations of both sponsors and sponsored, and reduce resettlement uncertainty.
(非)可信接触:安置知识资产与难民接收的第三空间
通过对加拿大安大略省两项私人赞助难民安置研究中204名参与者的访谈,我们探讨了抵达前接触对私人赞助商和私人赞助的叙利亚难民之间互动动态的安置效果。那些在抵达前通过Facebook、Skype和Whatsapp等数字应用程序定期联系的人比那些没有联系的人有更积极、“成功”的重新安置经历。这种到达前的互动动态具有理论/概念上的含义,超出了对“信息交换”好处的理解。抵达前的赞助商赞助的互动不受流离失所或重新安置的背景的约束,而是通过信任的接触共同创造的接待“第三空间”。我们提出了“移民安置知识资产”的概念,并报告了这些资产是如何通过移民抵达前的信任建立、改变资助方和被资助方的移民安置期望以及减少移民安置的不确定性而产生的。
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