In Search of Healing in Transition: A Young Syrian Refugee’s Experience of Reconciliation through Civic Engagement

This chapter explores the healing journey of a young refugee girl from wartorn Syria, through participation in the Tikkun Youth Project within the first year of her resettlement in Canada. Through a narrative approach, her story is considered from the social, cultural, and historical contexts, based on the work of Clandinin and Connelly (2000). Stemming from this theoretical framework, in-depth individual interviews with the young girl and participatory observation affords a better understanding of her transitional journey towards healing from the trauma of war, dislocation, and relocation. Her story characterizes impacts of civic engagement on the experiences of refugee youth in their search for healing and reconciliation.