A first person account of the refugee experience: Identifying psychosocial stressors and formulating psychological responses

Gary, Juneau; Rubin, Neal S.

doi:10.1037/e578822014-003

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“…In their systematic review, Fazel, Wheeler, and Danesh (2005) found higher levels of PTSD among refugees compared to the general population. Once resettled, there are many challenges with forming new social ties (Lamba and Kahn 2003;Veling, Hall, and Joose 2013;Wachter and Gulbas 2018), despite theoretical benefits of social relationships for refugees (Gary and Rubin 2014). Although social capital can be obtained through social networks, refugees may have good reason for caution and may practice "strategic anonymity" (intentionally not connecting with certain people from their home country in order to protect themselves from possible persecution or retribution), which suggests social constraints limiting the formation of new social ties (Arar 2016).…”

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Kinship, Friendship, and Service Provider Social Ties and How They Influence Well-Being among Newly Resettled Refugees

Greene

2019

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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As refugees move from forced displacement to resettlement, their networks change dramatically alongside their living conditions and surroundings. The relative benefit of different kinds of ties in this context is not well known. Data for this study came from quantitative and qualitative interviews that were part of the Refugee Well-Being Project (N = 290), a longitudinal randomized controlled trial study inclusive of refugees resettling from the Great Lakes region of Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Quantitative results revealed that greater numbers of kinship ties were related to better psychological quality of life (p < .01) and greater numbers of reported services providers as social ties were related to higher emotional distress (p < .001). Greater numbers of friendship ties were not statistically related to psychological quality of life or emotional distress. Qualitative findings suggest that cultural brokers-social ties that can bridge cultures, languages, and backgrounds-were particularly important to well-being, blending the benefits of strong and weak ties.

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