Refugee Resettlement as an Institution

Preface

Rawan Arar, Molly Fee, Heba Gowayed, and Blair Sackett

Introduction: refugee resettlement as an institution

Rawan Arar, Molly Fee, Heba Gowayed and Blair Sackett

1. “We don’t have to resettle those refugees. Some other countries do”: how race affects the relationship between U.S. foreign policy and refugee admissions

Rebbeca Tesfai

2. Waithood and creativity in the absence of resettlement: evidence from “residual” Liberian refugees in Nigeria

Tosin Samuel Durodola

3. Waiting for resettlement: experiences of Iranian refugee women in Turkey

Cemile Gizem Dinçer

4. The “not yet” and “never” resettled: individual and communal waiting strategies among refugees in Kenyan camps

Rachel McNally, Pascal Zigashane, Abdikadir Abikar, Arte Dagane, Mark Oyat Okello and Ochan Leomoi

5. Between hope and harm: the fragmentary effects of resettlement for Congolese refugees in Uganda

Jake Watson

6. Anchors, archipelagos, and ports of departure: how resettlement shapes im/mobilities in Nyarugusu refugee camp, Tanzania

Clayton Boeyink, Jean-Benoît Falisse, Levis Niyokwizera and Kaskil Ibrahim

7. Being “resettlement-minded”: intersectional dimensions of refugee resettlement strategies and refusals in Jordan

Sarah Nandi, Oroub El-Abed, Megan Bradley and Hamzah Qardan

8. Unpacking “expectation management”: the International Organization for Migration’s pre-departure orientation for resettling refugees

Natalie Welfens

9. Working on resettlement: refugees in Kenya and everyday practices in pursuit of migration futures

Sophia Balakian

10. “Heaven without people is not worth going to”: refugee resettlement, time, and the institutionalization of family separation

Neda Maghbouleh and Laila Omar

11. Brokering refugee integration: promises and pitfalls of refugee co-sponsorship in the United States

Pei Palmgren, Tomás Jiménez, Isabela Avila Breach amd Elisa Cascardi

12. The power of sponsorship: power and moral action in private refugee resettlement

Emily Regan Wills and Patti Tamara Lenard

Biography

Rawan Arar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She completed her PhD at the University of California San Diego and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University. Her book, co-authored with David Scott FitzGerald, is The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach.

Molly Fee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of South Florida. Her research examines how refugees interact with the institutions that grant rights and resources. Her book is entitled Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement.

Heba Gowayed is Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY Hunter College and Graduate Center and author of the award-winning book Refuge: How States Shape Human Potential. Her research and writing centers the lives of people who migrate across borders and the unequal and often violent institutions they face.

Blair Sackett is a Fellow at the Immigration Lab at American University. She completed a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines the barriers refugees face in accessing resources, and her book, co-authored with Annette Lareau, is We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America.