Download full text
(external source)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6309
Exports for your reference manager
Refugee Women's Volunteering as Resistance Practices to Micro‐Aggressions and Social Exclusion in the UK
[journal article]
Abstract In an increasingly hostile environment for refugees in the UK and the "everyday bordering" that creates exclusionary effects for refugees and migrants, this article examines how refugee women of diverse backgrounds enact resistance practices through volunteering to challenge everyday microaggression... view more
In an increasingly hostile environment for refugees in the UK and the "everyday bordering" that creates exclusionary effects for refugees and migrants, this article examines how refugee women of diverse backgrounds enact resistance practices through volunteering to challenge everyday microaggressions and social exclusion. We draw on in‐depth qualitative research with members of a support group for refugee women established by a local charity in England. We find that the support group not only allows the refugee women to foster a strong sense of solidarity in the face of everyday microaggressions; it also facilitates the women’s volunteering activities in the local community. Applying the concept of "differentiated embedding," we argue that such activities enable these women to build wider social connections and skills for future employment and, crucially, develop emotional and linguistic resources to critique dominant exclusionary discourses and policies towards refugees through the idea of "contribution" and "giving back." In so doing, we contribute to renewed interest in the concept of integration to highlight the agency of refugee women in creating differentiated embedding in a hostile environment.... view less
Keywords
integration; refugee; racism; honorary office; resistance; woman; Great Britain; exclusion; self-help; discrimination; social support
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social Problems
Free Keywords
critical incorporation; differentiated embedding; hostile environment; microaggression
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 69-79
Journal
Social Inclusion, 11 (2023) 2
Issue topic
Post-Migration Stress: Racial Microaggressions and Everyday Discrimination
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed