{"id":10494,"date":"2025-04-16T22:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T02:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=10494"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:27:00","slug":"new-article-being-resettlement-minded-intersectional-dimensions-of-refugee-resettlement-strategies-and-refusals-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2025\/new-article-being-resettlement-minded-intersectional-dimensions-of-refugee-resettlement-strategies-and-refusals-in-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Article: Being \u201cresettlement-minded\u201d: Intersectional Dimensions of Refugee Resettlement Strategies and Refusals in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce the publication of a new article in <em>Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/01419870.2025.2474612?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Being \u201cresettlement-minded\u201d: Intersectional Dimensions of Refugee Resettlement Strategies and Refusals in Jordan<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<em>By Sarah Nandi, Oroub El_Abed, Megan Bradley, and Hamzah Qardan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Published: March 21, 2025 in <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This timely and insightful research explores how refugees in Jordan, particularly Somali, Sudanese, Syrian, and Iraqi communities, navigate resettlement &#8211; both in pursuit and in refusal &#8211; through an intersectional lens. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork, this study reveals how gender, race, nationality, and power dynamics shape both aspirations and resistance to resettlement. The article challenges dominant narratives that frame resettlement as a universally desired solution and calls for an intersectional approach to understanding refugee agency, particularly in Global South contexts.<\/p>\n<p>Key highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unpacks how \u201cresettlement-mindedness\u201d and &#8220;deservedness&#8221; manifests through vocational and language training efforts in pursuit of self-reliance objectives .<\/li>\n<li>Challenges the assumption that resettlement is a universally desired solution.<\/li>\n<li>Offers a nuanced understanding of refugee agency in the Global South.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We invite scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and community members to engage with this important work.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/01419870.2025.2474612?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce the publication of a new article in Ethnic and Racial Studies: Being \u201cresettlement-minded\u201d: Intersectional Dimensions of Refugee Resettlement Strategies and Refusals in Jordan By Sarah Nandi, Oroub El_Abed, Megan Bradley, and Hamzah Qardan Published: March 21, 2025 in Ethnic and Racial Studies This timely and insightful research explores how refugees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[298,1,303,416,145],"tags":[556],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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