While the world's refugee population reaches record high numbers, countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement. Combining anthropology with a variety of professional perspectives (education, health care, theology, administration, politics, and social work) ethnography is used to demonstrate the efficacy of programs and interventions that create and nurture social capital in culturally specific and accessible ways. The contributors present case studies of resettlement in the United States, England, Australia, and Canada and contend that social networks have an essential role-are the crux-in the reconfigurations of refugee well-being, belonging, and place-making vis-a-vis the bureaucratic limitations of state and institutional factors. This book includes short contributions from refugees, representatives of resettlement organizations, and government officials, including Jhuma N. Acharya, Bimala Bastola, Khada Bhandari, Kiri Hata, Govin Magar, Madhu Neupane, Natacha Nikokeza, Angela K. Plummer, Lance Rasbridge, Chris Sunderlin, David Thatcher, and John Tluang.
Chapter 1 The Competing and Shifting Relevance of Social Capitals in Successful Refugee Resettlement Chapter 2 Guatemalan Mayas in the American Midwest: Creative Intercultural Networking Chapter 3 Re-Imagining Home: Resilience and Social Networks among Resettled Refugees in Columbus, Ohio, United States Chapter 4 Re-constructing Social Ties: The Multi-Ethnic Engagement Patterns of Refugees Residing Within a North Carolina Settlement House Chapter 5 Community-Based Organizations and Psychosocial Care in the Bhutanese Refugee Diaspora Chapter 6 The Pitfalls of the Community Development Approach in Refugee Resettlement: Community Divisions among Bhutanese Refugees in Manchester, United Kingdom Chapter 7 Refugee Perspectives on Social Networks and the Resettlement Information Landscape in the United States Chapter 8 The (Re)Generation of Life in Resettlement: Birth and Social Connectedness for Central African Refugee Women in Australia Chapter 9 The School Socialization of Young Nepali Women Refugees in a Medium-Sized Town in Quebec, Canada Chapter 10 "There Will Never Be a Foreclosure in Our Community": Networks of Dependence in the Secondary Relocation of Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees Chapter 11 Refugee Resettlements Divergent Outcomes: The Role of the Social Network in Housing Type and Location Chapter 12 Emplacing Bhutanese Refugees in the Rust Belt: Work, Networks, and Mobility in Resettlement
