Re-Imagining the Resettlement of Refugees by Engaging with an Ethic of Thriving.
Learning to thrive in the context of refugee resettlement can be a difficult task to consider and sustain when so much focus is given to promoting survival, recovery from trauma and self-sufficiency. It is argued that this resettlement paradigm is rooted in notions of refugee passivity, primarily mo...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 21 - 38 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2021
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