{"title":"Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Response to Refugees. By Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, Oxford University Press, 2021, 233 pp.","authors":"Sevin Gulfer Sagnic","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.41426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41426","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"79 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140967965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Urbanization of Forced Displacement: UNHCR, Urban Refugees, and the Dynamics of Policy Change. By Neil James Wilson Crawford. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021, 344 pp.","authors":"Haian Dukhan","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.41424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"92 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140984483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine. By Evelyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California Press, 2022, 266 pp.","authors":"Lori Selke","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.41425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"86 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140984727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unmasking the Impact of Bureaucratic Violence","authors":"Nina Gren, Dalia Abdelhady, Martin Joormann","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.41163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41163","url":null,"abstract":"This introductory article introduces the concept of bureaucratic violence as a partly new way of understanding and analyzing refugees’ encounters with bureaucratic structures within authorities and organizations. Violence or the threat of violence is an inevitable part of the experiences of most forcibly displaced people. In this Special Issue, we highlight how bureaucracies as social institutions, besides providing access to rights, also impact refugees in ways that are constraining, humiliating, soul-killing and, sometimes, life-threatening. We present the theoretical underpinnings of the term bureaucratic violence and, thus, the conceptual framework that connects the different case studies included.","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"40 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140983923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life. By Nasir Uddin, Oxford University Press, 2020, 268 pp.","authors":"Sodip Roy","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.41427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"79 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140984464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Families with Refugee Backgrounds Rebuilding New Lives: A Saskatchewan Study","authors":"Daniel Kikulwe, Donalda Halabuza, Teisha Williams","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.41175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41175","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study explores factors contributing to refugees’ resilience in Regina, Saskatchewan. It aims to add to the emerging body of Canadian literature on refugees’ strengths and experiences as they navigate resettlement in smaller urban centres. Data were collected from three focus groups that explored the experiences of 15 people from seven countries who had settled in Saskatchewan. Findings show common patterns that contributed to resilience for refugees, including pursuits of Canadian education, employment, social networks, and personal qualities. Conclusions indicate that protective factors (i.e., personal characteristics, social supports and networks, starting over in education and employment) that facilitated resilience for participants interacted and worked together to help them overcome adversity during settlement.","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"105 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140986027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What to Pack? The Semiotics of Be-Longing(s) of Syrian Displaced Women","authors":"Fadia F. Suyoufie, Abdullah M. Dagamseh","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.40959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40959","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study focuses on a group of 42 Syrian displaced women who live in Irbid, Jordan. The women went through the traumatic experience of forced eviction from their homes as a consequence of the civil war in Syria. The participants responded to a questionnaire about the most important things that they packed and whether the objects affected their coping with displacement. Our discussion of the socio-semiotic implications of the carried items validates our main thesis that the displaced women were empowered by the agency of commitment to the re-creation of home life away from home by solidly grounding it in the “dailiness” of domesticity. Through concept-driven coding, the study defines the pervasive patterns of the participants’ responses to the questions about their carried objects in relation to concepts of identity, home, and memory. The conclusion confirms that the women’s commitment to their roles as mothers and homemakers, along with their religious faith-based awareness of displacement, contributes to their sense of agency and resilience.","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"16 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139782277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What to Pack? The Semiotics of Be-Longing(s) of Syrian Displaced Women","authors":"Fadia F. Suyoufie, Abdullah M. Dagamseh","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.40959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40959","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study focuses on a group of 42 Syrian displaced women who live in Irbid, Jordan. The women went through the traumatic experience of forced eviction from their homes as a consequence of the civil war in Syria. The participants responded to a questionnaire about the most important things that they packed and whether the objects affected their coping with displacement. Our discussion of the socio-semiotic implications of the carried items validates our main thesis that the displaced women were empowered by the agency of commitment to the re-creation of home life away from home by solidly grounding it in the “dailiness” of domesticity. Through concept-driven coding, the study defines the pervasive patterns of the participants’ responses to the questions about their carried objects in relation to concepts of identity, home, and memory. The conclusion confirms that the women’s commitment to their roles as mothers and homemakers, along with their religious faith-based awareness of displacement, contributes to their sense of agency and resilience.","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"126 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139842128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Changed: Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery. By Daniel Briggs, New York: Routledge, 2020. pp. 224","authors":"Raúl Gualtruzzi","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.41212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41212","url":null,"abstract":"book review","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"43 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refugees, Interculturalism and Education, M. Catarci, M. Prata Gomes & S. Siqueira (eds.), Routledge, 202, pp. 186","authors":"Roula Kitsiou","doi":"10.25071/1920-7336.41312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41312","url":null,"abstract":"book review","PeriodicalId":506340,"journal":{"name":"Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees","volume":"62 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}