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At The Receiving End. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 184
Sub-Saharan African refugee women have become a
significant group in Western countries over the past
20 years. Their plights and successes have been
reported by service providers.
This study intended to uncover the meaning refugee
women from the Great Lakes region of Africa attribute
to being recipients of services during the first 4
months of their resettlement in the United States.
Social constructivism was used as the theoretical
framework for understanding the refugee women’s
experience. This qualitative study used a
phenomenological approach. Findings revealed the
impact of pre-resettlement experiences on the meaning
refugee women give to the phenomenon under study.
Underlying the major themes were two threads: the
fear of annihilation and the need for
self-preservation. The key constructs of
powerlessness and cultural differences were shown to
have an impact on the experience of receiving
services in final resettlement. Practitioners,
educators and policy makers will appreciate the
importance of understanding the refugee women’s
experience of receiving services in order to develop
and provide culturally responsive refugee services.
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