Refugees in Vermont: mobility and acculturation in a new immigrant destination
Refugees in Vermont: mobility and acculturation in a new immigrant destination
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2014.03.016
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发表时间：
2014-04
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
P. Bose
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作者：
P. Bose
本文探讨了流动性的想法，最近的难民谁重新安置在美国东北部的非传统的移民目的地。它是基于多年的定性研究的旅行行为，偏好和需求之间的这些新来的人在佛蒙特州的一个小城市。由于他们既被迫离开家园流离失所，又在难民营环境和难民确定过程中停滞不前，难民是一些人所说的“流动/停泊辩证法”（Urry，2003：125）的一个例子，他们既在流动，又被困在原地。他们在美国的重新安置，正如本文所述，可能代表了这种辩证法的进一步延伸-政府人员将新移民安置在非他们自己选择的接待区，被迫长途通勤，进入不熟悉的工作环境，由于一系列交通障碍，他们获得医疗保健、教育和就业（以及其他服务）的能力有限。我认为，在本文中，难民在一个新的定居点的流动性比不便：流动的障碍可能会构成文化适应，融合，自我赋权和社区建设的障碍。
This paper explores the idea of mobility for recent refugees who have resettled in a non-traditional immigrant destination in the northeastern U.S. It is based on a multi-year qualitative study of travel behavior, preferences, and needs amongst these new arrivals in a small city in the state of Vermont. As a result of their experiences of both forced displacement from their home as well as stasis within camp settings and the refugee determination process, refugees are an example of what some have called “a dialectic of movement/moorings” (Urry, 2003: 125), both on the move and trapped in place. Their resettlement in the U.S., as this paper illustrates, may represent a further extension of this dialectic—placed by government agents in new immigrant reception areas not of their own choosing, forced to commute long distances and into unfamiliar environments for work and limited in their abilities to access healthcare, education and employment (amongst other services) due to a range of transportation barriers. I argue in this paper that refugee mobilities in a new settlement site are about more than inconvenience: barriers to movement may constitute obstacles to acculturation, integration, self-empowerment, and community building.