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- Title
Cultural–legal brokering and gender: A study of refugee‐serving institutions upon resettlement.
- Authors
Gonzalez Benson, Odessa; Asadi, Leila; Pimentel Walker, Ana Paula; Yoshihama, Mieko
- Abstract
Increased academic attention to the intersections of refugee studies and gender studies has focused on the lives and trajectories of refugee women. In this study, we examine resettlement institutions involved with refugee women, drawing upon critical scholarship on "brokerage." Brokers reproduce and impose the powers of the state, but also negotiate with and resist the state. We draw from interviews with resettlement workers and refugee leaders in refugee‐serving institutions, focusing on one mid‐sized metropolitan area in the United States. We argue that resettlement institutions enact brokering not only in the cultural domain but also the legal domain. We further posit that cultural–legal brokering is enacted via contested negotiation of idealized patriarchal values–traditions in both the countries of origin and resettlement.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BROKERS; LAND settlement; STATE power; WOMEN refugees; REFUGEE resettlement; RIGHT of asylum; LEGAL status of refugees
- Publication
International Journal of Social Welfare, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 1, p250
- ISSN
1369-6866
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijsw.12602