Refugee Resettlement in the United States

Marnie K. Watson is an applied medical anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Missouri State University. Her research and teaching focus on homelessness, race and ethnicity, urban anthropology, expressive culture, modernity, behavioral health, migration, and refugee health. Pritha Gopalan is an educational anthropologist and the Director of Research and Learning at the Newark Trust for Education. She is committed to research grounded in community experiences and perspectives in education, refugee resettlement, and urban development. She is the author of PPP Paradox: Promise and Perils of Public-Private Partnership in Education.

Prologue David W. Haines; Toward a Humanizing Discourse in Research, Policy, and Practice with Refugee Communities Shawna Shapiro; Part I Unpacking Early Resettlement: Loss and Transition; 1 "More Karenni, More Happy": The Role of Social Bonds in the Refugee Resettlement and Integration Processes of Families from Myanmar in Western New York.-Pilapa Esara Carroll and Ngo Hna; 2 A Figured World in New Jersey Supports Successful English Language Learning-Pritha Gopalan, Jodi F. Paroff, Tahi Hunter, Sikandar Khan; 3 Collaborative Social Media Production with a Congolese Refugee Youth Group in Florida-Dillon Mahoney; 4 "Sometimes, I Wish We Never Came Here": Public Schooling of Iraqi Refugee Youth and a Dream (of a Second Life) Denied-Sally Wesley Bonet; 5 Dietary Change and Nutritional Status among Refugees from Burma in West Central Florida: Implications for Health and Educational Programs-Roberta D. Baer, Sarah Taylor, Kelsee Hentschel-Fey, Adriana Dail, Sean Baird, Jacqueline Sivén, Channah Leff, Seiichi Villalona; Part II Understanding Later Resettlement: Transition and Resilience; 6 "I Would Expect Her to Know That She’s A Dinka": Defining Successful Reproduction and Resettlement among South Sudanese Refugees-Anna Jaysane-Darr; 7 "They Don’t Love Me Anymore" : A Deeper Look at Family-Related Anxiety for Nepali Bhutanese Refugees in Northeast Ohio-Marnie K. Watson; 8 Seeking Samaj: Refugee Resettlement Beyond Self-Sufficiency and Dispersal-Andrew Nelson; 9 Trajectories of Refugee Adaptation: Insights from the Case of Bosnians in the United States-Fethi Keles; 10 Building a Multicultural Community with Resettled Refugees: A case study of the Midtown Utica Community Center in Utica, NY-Kathryn Stam and Chris Sunderlin; Epilogue: Beyond the Fastlane: Policy Innovation to Facilitate Upward Mobility-Faith Nibbs