عنوان

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

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TLpq2240097770

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Title Proper

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

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Dromgold-Sermen, Michelle S.

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Hagan, Jacqueline

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019

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62

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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2019

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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.

Middle Eastern Studies

Sociology

Dromgold-Sermen, Michelle S.

Hagan, Jacqueline

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