Refugee Realities: Between National Challenges and Local Responsibilities in Houston, TX

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dc.contributor.authorDigilov, Yanen_US
dc.contributor.authorSharim, Yehudaen_US
dc.contributor.authorWu, Jieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T21:04:28Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-03-05T21:04:28Zen_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractThis report examines the U.S. refugee resettlement program and contextualizes legislation that forces employment within days of arrival at the cost of future prosperity. We explore the consequences of such a resettlement system on families who come after living in refugee camps for decades with dreams of a better life, and question the implications of a program that lacks long-term perspective. The report begins by juxtaposing public discourse on the impact of refugees with data that was available in its earliest foundations and moves on to discuss the ecosystem in Houston, Texas, which results from the rapid employment model. More specifically, we look closely into the last 37 years of government policy and explore how support for refugees plummeted over the years from an average of about $12,000 per capita in the 1980s to about $3,500 per capita in 2015, resulting in a system that places refugees into channels of cheap-labor, social isolation, political marginalization and collective silence.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDigilov, Yan, Sharim, Yehuda and Wu, Jie. "Refugee Realities: Between National Challenges and Local Responsibilities in Houston, TX." (2018) Rice University and Kinder Institute for Urban Research: https://doi.org/10.25611/u1ps-27eo.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalKI_2018_RefugeeRealitiesen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/u1ps-27eoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/105232en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherKinder Institute for Urban Researchen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://kinder.rice.edu/research/refugee-realities-between-national-challenges-and-local-responsibilities-houston-txen_US
dc.rightsCopyright ©2018 by Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.titleRefugee Realities: Between National Challenges and Local Responsibilities in Houston, TXen_US
dc.typeReporten_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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