Roomies for Life? : An Assessment of How Staying with a Local Facilitates Refugee Integration

van Dijk, Hans and Knappert, Lena and Muis, Quita and Alkhaled, Sophie (2022) Roomies for Life? : An Assessment of How Staying with a Local Facilitates Refugee Integration. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 20 (3). pp. 321-335. ISSN 1556-2948

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Abstract

In light of failing integration policies and practices, we provide a qualitative evaluation of a social innovation that aims to facilitate integration by providing refugees an opportunity to reside temporarily with locals. Our analysis of the experiences shared by refugee guests and local hosts provides insight on the theory and practice of refugee integration in three ways: we (1) inform research and policy on the effectiveness of staying with a local as a means for integrating refugees, (2) unpack the mechanisms through which staying with a local facilitates refugee integration, and (3) theoretically enrich the literature on indicators of integration.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies

Additional Information:

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies on 17/05/2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15562948.2021.1923879

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3306

Subjects:

?? refugee integrationsocial innovationindicators of integrationsocial bridgingrefugee housinghealth(social science)demographygeography, planning and development ??

ID Code:

155338

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

25 May 2021 13:55

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

15 Oct 2024 23:20

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/155338