{"title":"The intersection between social relationships and policies in refugee integration: The role of emotional support","authors":"Gabriella D’Avino","doi":"10.1093/jrs/feaf015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaf015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study compares the social relationships of refugees resettled through the UK’s Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Community Sponsorship (CS) programme, focusing on relationship quality, the support offered, and effects on integration. Results show that CS refugees tend to have more relationships providing emotional support, while VPRS refugees often lack such support. By introducing the concepts of ‘helpful’ and ‘caring’ relationships, this study distinguishes between practical help and emotional support, highlighting factors like intimacy and frequent contact. Findings suggest that emotional support in CS networks enhances refugees’ confidence and comfort, facilitates engagement with the broader community, and boosts their ability to reciprocate. This study provides a nuanced understanding of how social relationships, individual factors, and refugee-integration-opportunity structures intersect to shape integration, emphasizing the crucial role of emotional support in facilitating integration.","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"38 4","pages":"910-932"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147897711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Durable solutions: to what and for whom?","authors":"Nicholas Maple, Lucy Hovil","doi":"10.1093/jrs/feae090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae090","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The three durable solutions (resettlement, local integration, and repatriation) are out of reach to most refugees. Even when they are offered, they are often watered down or repackaged, so that their durability has been undermined. This paper examines their contemporary role and framing and proposes an urgent recalibration of our understanding of the solutions based around three interlinked elements. First, to recover the core function of all three durable solutions, namely the (re)gaining of citizenship; in order, second, to shift the conversation away from assumptions about the sedentary nature of durable solutions; which, third, draws out a greater understanding of the potential collaboration and connections between these traditional solutions and ground-level solutions that refugees create for themselves. We argue that not only are each of these elements important in and of themselves, but they also need to be viewed as indivisible.","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"112-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147901645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda","authors":"Thomas Gammeltoft‐Hansen, Daniel Ghezelbash","doi":"10.1093/jrs/feae068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Refugee law has historically formed an important part of refugee studies. Yet, in the past decades, the legal study of refugees has increasingly developed out of sync with refugee studies more generally. The purpose of this special issue is to help bridge the gap between refugee law and refugee studies and foster a broader transdisciplinary research agenda on law within refugee studies scholarship. The special issue serves two overarching purposes. The first is to exemplify and celebrate methodological heterodoxy in refugee law scholarship—deliberately foregrounding perspectives often marginalized within more mainstream legal scholarship. To this end, this issue presents a range of contributions that draw on methods and theories from different disciplines in the study of refugee law, including anthropology, history, psychology, political science, organization studies, and data science. Second, by anchoring this special issue in the Journal of Refugee Studies, we hope to convince the wider refugee studies community that empirical and interdisciplinary legal methods may provide new and important insights into some of the core debates on and long-standing challenges to refugee law.","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"37 4","pages":"837-850"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147891805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Private sponsorship prefigured: religious groups and Canada’s Cold War refugee policy","authors":"Geoffrey Cameron","doi":"10.1093/jrs/feae051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae051","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Canada’s policy of private refugee sponsorship has attracted growing international attention as a complementary pathway to refugee protection, which other countries have sought to replicate. The development of the policy is often connected to the 1976 Immigration Act and subsequent government-led initiatives to engage civil society groups in refugee resettlement. This article argues that the origins of private sponsorship can be traced to the period after World War Two, as a government response to interest group pressure from religious groups. By centring the role of interest groups in the early development of private sponsorship, this article nuances state-centred institutionalist accounts that stress the influence of bureaucrats on immigration policymaking.","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"151-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147901529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Understandings of Happiness and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in the UK","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jrs/fead096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"25 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138947739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: ‘I Did Not Choose to Be in Your Country’: Social-Racial Hierarchies in Peru and Venezuelan Migrant Women’s Responses","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jrs/fead090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"30 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138955087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Methods for the Future, Futures for Methods: Collaborating with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jrs/fead095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"71 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139170342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto, E. Okporo","authors":"Dafni Katsampa","doi":"10.1093/jrs/fead091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"47 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frank van Tubergen, Irena Kogan, Yuliya Kosyakova, Steffen Pötzschke
{"title":"Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe","authors":"Frank van Tubergen, Irena Kogan, Yuliya Kosyakova, Steffen Pötzschke","doi":"10.1093/jrs/fead089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead089","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The literature on migrants’ self-selection is focused on labour migrants, while little is known about refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). We contribute to this scant literature, by (1) examining a broad set of factors that could determine self-selection, (2) contrasting self-selection profiles of refugees and IDPs, and (3) comparing self-selection profiles of refugees across countries. Specifically, we compare the self-selection profiles of Ukrainian refugees and IDPs with stayers in the months directly following the Russian full-scale invasion in February 2022. We draw on unique, cross-nationally comparative data from the OneUA project, which surveyed Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe as well as those who stayed in Ukraine in the summer of 2022. More than 24,000 Ukrainian women residing in nine countries participated in this survey. We find systematic empirical patterns of self-selection related to people’s region of origin, family status, and individual-level characteristics.","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"56 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Is a Refugee in Jordan? Hierarchies and Exclusions in the Refugee Recognition Regime","authors":"Lewis Turner","doi":"10.1093/jrs/fead083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead083","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article dissects the refugee recognition regime in Jordan. It argues that refugee recognition, despite being conducted by UNHCR, is a heavily politicized process shaped by intersecting racial and national hierarchies, restrictive government regulations, and UNHCR policies. Despite Jordan hosting the ‘second highest share of refugees per capita in the world’, relatively few protection seekers gain refugee status, and when they do, it is almost always as part of the resettlement process. Many remain asylum seekers for years or decades, while others cannot even register their claim for international protection with UNHCR. This article contributes to refugee studies by demonstrating how UNHCR policies are changing RSD in non-signatory states, the importance of asylum/refugee registration, how state and humanitarian policies lead to some protection seekers being missed in academic analyses, and highlighting the ever-growing gap between the legal and ‘everyday’ uses of the term ‘refugee’.","PeriodicalId":51464,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Refugee Studies","volume":"36 4","pages":"877-896"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jrs/fead083/53709787/fead083.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147896476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}