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Resettled: How Refugees Experience Employment and Unemployment in the United States

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 and women experience different employment trajectories in the United States, which are shaped by gender inequality in the public and domestic spheres. I further find that refugees' navigation with work in the United Stated influences their unemployment experiences and work in the informal sector. My study extends previous literature on refugee incorporation by conceptualizing refugees' employment as a gendered process, which includes periods of formal paid work, informal paid work, and unemployment in the United States.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1707322
Date08 1900
CreatorsMumtaz, Mehr
ContributorsSobering, Katherine, Barnes, Donna, Ignatow, Gabe
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 49 pages, Text
RightsPublic, Mumtaz, Mehr, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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