This session will be streamed, recorded, and archived on the site until June 25th, 2023

Curated Track: 

Description:

As displacement around the globe continues to rise, protections for forced migrants are more pressing than ever. Despite increased need, opportunities for third-country resettlement have decreased significantly in the past decade. While the United States once hosted the world's largest third-country resettlement program, Trump-era cuts severely reduced capacity for resettlement and crippled the U.S. Resettlement and Placement (USRAP) program. The Biden administration has faced considerable challenges to the task of rebuilding the USRAP and expanding resettlement, including emerging displacement crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine, and ongoing challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic; however, communities across the country continue to welcome, sponsor, and advocate for the expansion of refuge in the United States.

This panel session seeks to bring together scholarship on refugee resettlement geographies in order to make sense of the dramatic shifts marking the past, present, and future of resettlement in the United States. We are interested in papers that explore themes around the future of the U.S. resettlement program, emerging modes of resettlement or parole programs, experiences of refugee newcomers, or dynamics within receiving communities. Papers may address (but are not limited to) the following:

- Resettlement programs and practices in new or emerging destinations
- Impacts of national policy shifts on local resettlement geographies, programs, or resettlement experiences
- Experiences of immigrants and refugees amidst national or local policy changes
- Emerging programs of resettlement, parole, and community sponsorship
- Divergent host community responses to refugee resettlement
- Localized responses and actors involved in refugee resettlement
- Media representations of resettled refugees and resettlement programs

Non-Presenting Participants