Refugee Resettlement as an Institution

This book examines how scholars and policymakers primarily characterize refugee resettlement as a humanitarian solution or a migration pathway. While these descriptions may be accurate, they are not comprehensive. This book examines how such framing influences understandings of resettlement's scope and impact, generating conceptual blind spots that limit critical inquiry.

By reframing resettlement as an institution embedded in a complex network of actors, relations, and practices, the chapte...