Factors Associated with Poverty among Refugees in the United States

In this paper, factors associated with poverty among refugees were explored using a nationally representative sample in the United States. Relying on social exclusion theory,) refugee integration framework was selected as conceptual of study. Poverty calculated based households’ income (income poverty) and deprivation three domains education, health, housing (multidimensional poverty). Multivariate models study identified limited English language proficiency strongest predictor both multidimensional refugees. The findings call for more attention to training