An Examination of Refugees Strategies of Survival: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Status of Resettlement Organizations and the Promotion of Alternative Forms of Resettlement Setting

<p>Resettled Refugees require humanizing approaches to community integration that promote healthy levels of independence and connection to the U.S. cultural practices, similar to that of home communities. Instead, a host culture dominates with complex and "none-reachable" profit-making institutions suffocating home culture practices. Within this context, this study attends to the social dysfunctionality that occurs beyond an interpersonal stress-adaptation-growth dynamic and clarifies why research often failed to understand a more successful refugee cultural integration experience.</p> <p>The research was a systemic review of refugee strategies of survival collaboratively obtaining perceptions post-settlement: attitudes, motivations, interests, experiences, and expectations and the different ways in which environmental factors influence hope, values, cultural beliefs, and other decision-making. The two-part study narrative research explores adopted strategies of survival to gain an in-depth understanding of their survival psychology. To compare the usefulness of experiences gained before arriving in the U.S. To investigate if government interventions are complimenting refugee strategies of survival.</p> <p>The result of both studies, in brief, suggests the need for more empowering (i.e., participatory) interventions. Therefore, in keeping with a strength-based approach, this study's additional objective is to provide participants with a therapeutic medium to narrate their stories to begin the healing process.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Community Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Olanrewaju, Moshood

Contributors dc:contributor

• Brad Olson
• Tiffeny Jimenez
• Ericka Mingo

• Settlement System
• Refugee Community
• Strategies of Survival
• Post-Settlement Growth
• NGOs
• Social Balance
• Arts and Humanities
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/598

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1644