Refugees from Burma have comprised the largest group of refugees resettling in the United States over the past decade, with nearly 90,000 people, and 19 percent of the total refugee population. However, very little literature exists that describes the cultural context and displacement experiences of this population. This article addresses that gap in the literature by examining historical, soci...

This study investigates the effect of perceived discrimination on the mental health of Afghan refugees, and secondly, tests the distress moderating effects of pre-migration traumatic experiences and post-resettlement adjustment factors. In a cross-sectional design, 259 Afghans completed surveys assessing perceived discrimination and a number of other factors using scales developed through induc...

This article describes refugee-background South Sudanese Acholi attempts to (re)produce customary marriages in New Zealand. The cross-cutting debt obligations and transactions involved these need the involvement of transnational social networks. Beyond networks, however, are important ethnic identification, with generating maintaining feelings “belonging.” Such largely absent from most refugees...

The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate, and Rural Resettlement issued statutory instrument (S.I) 50 2021, announcing the 12940 hectares Chilonga land is commercialized for national food security. 2021 also stated that villagers immediately pave way lucerne grass irrigation project. problem with this research Land has power to relocate people in all communal lands according constitut...