State Intervention in Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12212581 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert L Bach (0000-0001-5690-2829, Binghamton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-56 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Refugee Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-6328 • E-ISSN: 1471-6925 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jrs/1.1.38 |
| OpenAlex | W1972148536 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
High public assistance utilization rates among Southeast Asian refugees have led to serious concerns about the success or failure of the U.S. resettlement effort. Results presented here show that these high rates are misleading. Receipt of public assistance by refugees is far from a clear indication of welfare dependency and an obstacle to economic progress. In fact, public aid helps to establish a reasonable standard of living for many who work. Independence from public cash payments is also not a clear end to the struggle for economic integration. Government programmes, interacting with the demographic composition of households and conditions of the local labour market, moderate the impact of refugees' poverty. But such aid also serves as a source of economic and social differentiation. The consequences of receiving state aid are sufficiently strong to make access to assistance a primary source of inequality within the refugee population
Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic interventionism · Economics · Environmental health · Government (linguistics · Independence (probability theory · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Receipt · Refugee · State (computer science · International Development and Aid · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Economic self-sufficiency (ESS) as a barrier to health self-sufficiency (HSS) for Burmese refugees in the United States
Refugee Articulations of Health
Low-income Asians living in the United States
International Migrants or Welfare Clients
Institutional Structures of Opportunity in Refugee Resettlement
Toward a new definition of refugee economic integration
Predictors of economic status of Southeast Asian refugees
Employment Retention, Area of Origin and Type of Social Support among Refugees in the Chicago Area
Immigrants, Natives and the French Welfare State
Do 'New Immigrants' Become 'New Minorities
Welfare-Dependent Refugees
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |