Negotiating knowledges and expertise in refugee resettlement organizations
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Negotiating knowledges and expertise in refugee resettlement organizations
Interviews with both refugees and organizational staff in two nonprofit refugee resettlement organizations in the United States reveal the ways in which knowledge(s) and expertise are crafted, threatened, and understood in refugee organizations. Refugee-participants described the need for knowledgeable communication, barriers to the communication of knowledge, and processes of negotiating whose...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cogent Social Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2331-1886
DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2016.1162990