Secure Belonging and Multidimensional among Syrian Refugees Resettled in the United States

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" Secure Belonging and Multidimensional among Syrian Refugees Resettled in the United States "
Dromgold-Sermen, Michelle S. Hagan, Jacqueline

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1104635
Doc. No	:	TLpq2240097770
Main Entry	:	Dromgold-Sermen, Michelle S.
	:	Hagan, Jacqueline
Title & Author	:	Secure Belonging and Multidimensional among Syrian Refugees Resettled in the United States\ Dromgold-Sermen, Michelle S.Hagan, Jacqueline
College	:	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date	:	2019
student score	:	2019
Degree	:	M.A.
Page No	:	62
Abstract	:	What does it mean to belong in a new place? Drawing on twelve months of participant observation and twenty-two interviews with six Syrian refugee families resettled in the southeastern United States, I find that Syrians identify 'secure belonging' as a central dimension of their experiences of belonging. Secure belonging is a sense of 'home,' safety and protection that persons displaced from their homelands experience at the individual and familial level. Building on previous analytical frameworks of belonging (Fenster 2005; Yuval-Davis 2006; Antonsich 2010), I identify and situate secure belonging as a core dimension that supports and interacts with other dimensions of belonging. Syrian refugees provide evidence that secure belonging can occur relatively quickly in a new place. Furthermore, a sense of secure belonging is central for shaping and supporting individuals' development of emotional, social and civic belonging that connects them to the geographic place and community of their new home.
Subject	:	Middle Eastern Studies
	:	Sociology