Institutional Entanglements: How Institutional Knots and Reverberating Consequences Burden Refugee Families

Abstract

We thank the refugee families, aid workers, and volunteers who shared their experiences. Maria Odongo, Mirriam Chemutai, and Frida Aloo were exceptionally talented research assistants who helped carry out interviews with refugee families.We also gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2022 Russell Sage Foundation conference "Administrative Burdens as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation." We are grateful to the feedback of conference participants, especially from the editors. We are also thankful for the input from the doctoral student writing group at the

The Wait List as Redistributive Policy: Access and Burdens in the Subsidized Childcare System

“…Recent administrative data also suggest that a substantial portion of those on Massachusetts' wait list are not native English speakers, nearly 16 percent of children on the list indicating Spanish as their first language, followed by smaller percentages indicating Portuguese or Haitian Creole as their primary language. 3 Barriers to accessing childcare, including administrative burdens buried in the wait list, therefore contribute to the gendered and racialized reproduction of inequality, what Whitney Laster Pirtle and Tashelle Wright term "structural gendered racism" (2021) and reflect intersectional disadvantages similar to those documented within and reverberating across many other institutional contexts (Sackett and Lareau 2023).…”