Resettled: How Refugees Experience Employment and Unemployment in the United States
Description:
Research on immigration in the United States has commonly studied the employment experiences of refugees. Few studies on refugees have focused on both, refugees' employment and unemployment experiences in the United States. This article draws on twenty in-depth interviews with refugees, along with ethnographic observation at a local refugee resettlement agency, to investigate how refugees make sense of their employment and unemployment experiences in the United States. I find that refugee men a…
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Date:
August 2020
Creator:
Mumtaz, Mehr
Partner:
UNT Libraries