Status Eligibilities

The Eligibility to Exist and Authority to Act in Refugee–Host Relations

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18968321
AutoresChristopher Kyriakides (York University, autor correspondente), Arthur Mcluhan (0000-0002-6133-5838, York University), Kim M Anderson (0000-0002-1352-604X, York University), Karen Anderson (0000-0002-3289-2598, York University), Lubna Bajjali (York University)
Ano2019
Volume98
Fascículo1
Páginas279-302
Data de publicação2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/sf/soy109
OpenAlexW2898800027
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas82

This study of refugee resettlement contributes a novel conceptual framework to the sociology of forced migration. Drawing on interviews with Syrian refugees in their first year of resettlement in Ontario, Canada, we demonstrate how successful sponsorship counters the “non-person” status associated with refugee recognition. During displacement, refugees mobilize their pre-conflict roles to secure self-rescue against forces of conflict. During resettlement, refugees assert their eligibility to exist and authority to act as “persons” in a reception context that challenges the normative authority of their pre-conflict social roles. Refugee–host interactions that affirm pre-conflict social roles provide the basis for shared trust and enhance the experience of resettlement, confirming statuses which counter the structural violence of refugee role confinement

Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Forced migration · Geography · Normative · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology