Wiping the Refugee Dust from My Feet”
Advantages and Burdens of Refugee Status and the Refugee Label
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9954367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernadette Ludwig (The Graduate Center The City University of New York New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-18 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-14 |
| 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.12111 |
| OpenAlex | W1992212793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
| References cited | 26 |
There are two dominant contrasting images of refugees in scholarship and popular discourse: refugees as powerless victims or beneficiaries of generous welfare packages. While it is true that an individual who enters the United States with legal refugee status has – at least at first glance – many advantages over those arriving as immigrants. Unlike immigrants, refugees are entitled to numerous government benefits, thus putting her or him in a privileged position compared to those who lack the official status of refugee. On the other hand refugees' depiction as being need of services and protection can also perpetuate an image of them as victims without agency. This ethnographic study of Liberian refugees in Staten Island, New York shows how refugees themselves and their co‐ethnics who are in the US under a variety of other legal statues regard the term “refugee”. This paper establishes the advantages that are associated with the legal refugee status and the burdens with the informal label “refugee”. This analysis will clarify how the legal refugee status can be beneficial and the informal label refugee, burdensome not just for Liberian, but for refugees in general and as such have significant policy implications
Agency (philosophy · Criminology · Government (linguistics · Immigration · Political science · Refugee · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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A help or hindrance? Highly educated refugees’ perceptions of the role of civic integration programmes in accessing the labour market in Oslo, Malmö and Munich
Contesting “the” immigrant experience—diverse refugee and immigrant communities in the US
It is tough to be a Liberian refugee in Staten Island, NY
Spaces of well‐being and regional settlement
I Already Know This
The Labeling and Positioning of Refugee Students and Their Refusal to be (Mis)Positioned
Reflexivity in research
Youth Matters
Exile, Asylum and Refugees in Modern European History
Refugee integration
Modes of Ordering
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Refugee citizenship
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The case for refugee physicians
Double burden of representation
Experiencing and resisting interwoven social boundaries
Experiencing forced migration
Negotiating refugee status
Once a refugee, always a refugee? The social construction of refugee status after resettlement
North Korean refugee students' strategy of school engagement and its impact on identity in South Korea
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Attitudes towards refugees
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Refugees as People
Beyond the Discourse of Trauma
New Immigrants in New York
Institutional Structures of Opportunity in Refugee Resettlement
Problem or Opportunity? Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Employment and Social Exclusion in Deprived Urban Areas
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Abject Cosmopolitanism
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Buddha Is Hiding
| Unique citing works | 75 |
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| Citations per year | 6,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 74 |