Failure to Protect
How Tracking Refugees into Temporary Work Violates Economic Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9953095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kamryn Warren (0000-0002-5959-7257, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-227 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/imig.12768 |
| OpenAlex | W3088840983 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
Refugees often imagine resettlement to the USA to be a solution to their problems, but the process of resettlement is full of social, cultural and economic hurdles. Through an ethnographic analysis of a resettlement agency, this research shows that refugee employment specialists consistently track refugees into low‐wage and contingent work even when refugees have strong language skills, experience in professional work, and advanced degrees. Bureaucratic reporting structures and quota requirements create pressures on refugee employment specialists to place refugees in jobs quickly which hinders them from working towards meaningful economic self‐sufficiency. The denial of refugee autonomy in pursuit of work and economic freedoms is a human rights violation facilitated by a government failure to protect them from third‐party exploitation. This article argues that the chronic underemployment of refugees exemplifies a common, but understudied type of economic rights violation
Agency (philosophy · Autonomy · Bureaucracy · Denial · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Human rights · Political science · Refugee · Right to work · Sociology · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology
Fat and mean
Work and the Welfare State
Working It Out in Practice
Human Rights in the United States
Human Rights as Indivisible Rights
Sovereignty, Choice, and the Responsibility to Protect
Responsibility to Protect
On the Cost of Economic Rights in the United States
Getting Refugees to Work
The Faltering US Refugee Protection System
Constructing Gender
It Ought to Be a Crime
For Refugees, the Road to Employment in the United States Is Paved With Workable Uncertainties and Controversies
De Jure vs. De Facto Rights
More than a “Good Back”
Institutional Structures of Opportunity in Refugee Resettlement
Human Rights
Understanding Integration
Human Services Providers' Perspectives on Refugee Resettlement in the United States before and after the 2016 Presidential Election
Buddha Is Hiding
Traversing the flexible turn
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |