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This article examines how struggles to re-establish the familiarities and regularities of everyday life in the aftermath of war and displacement had the important effect of promoting and sustaining transnational social and economic ties between refugee settlements in South Africa and home villages in Mozambique. Focusing on the postwar post-apartheid period, the article demonstrates how diverse practices related to the poetics and possibilities of cattle ownership, access to land, struggles over employment, ancestor worship and fear of the occult compelled transnational forms of exchange and interaction that shaped economic life in significant ways across this border region. But these crossborder practices were not necessarily experienced as desirable, convenient or profitable. In most instances they did not deliver the tangible benefits of mobility or 'flexibility' of citizenship (Ong 1998) so often assumed in a globalised economy. Rather, I argue that they engaged a more longstanding struggle to define place and belonging in this border region, highlighting a historically familiar politics of race, ethnicity, gender and modernisation. Focusing on the social, cultural and economic intimacies of everyday life, reconstituted in a refugee setting, the analysis cautions against the interpretation of transnational movement and exchange in the wake of displacement as bold assertions of entrepreneurship or claims to membership of a globalised community. Adapted from the source document.

Purpose Economic self-sufficiency is the priority of U.S. refugee resettlement policy, and opportunities for economic integration are shaped by social service contexts. While reception and placement services are typically provided for 3–8 months, extended case management (ECM) involves 2 years of services. This study examines associations between economic integration outcomes—employment, income source, income, and employment satisfaction—and exposure to ECM. Method We compare 243 resettled refugees, including those resettled in Salt Lake City, Utah who received ECM and those resettled in Tucson, Arizona without ECM. Results Participants at both sites experienced increased employment and income over time. Participants in Salt Lake City initially experienced higher rates of employment, income, and employment satisfaction than those in Tucson. Employment satisfaction increased more rapidly in Salt Lake City. Being female and older age were also associated with poorer outcomes. Discussion Findings point to the benefits of ECM services in promoting economic integration.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many refugee communities faced intensified economic and social challenges. This longitudinal study began three years prior to the COVID pandemic and examined the effects of COVID on refugee outcomes in the United States including employment, health insurance, safety, and discrimination. The study also examined participant perspectives on COVID-related challenges. Participants included 42 refugees who resettled approximately three years prior to the onset of the pandemic. Data were collected at six months, 12 months, two years, three years, and four years postarrival, with the pandemic beginning between years 3 and 4. Linear growth models examined how the pandemic impacted participant outcomes over time. Descriptive analyses examined perspectives regarding pandemic challenges. Results indicated that during the pandemic, employment and safety significantly decreased. Participant concerns regarding the pandemic centered on health, economic challenges, and isolation. Attention to refugee outcomes during the COVID pandemic highlight the need for social work practitioners to promote equitable access to information and social supports, particularly during times of uncertainty.

Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614653);This volume examines the ways in which changing political and economic processes impact upon patterns of population movement and settlement. It focuses on the southern African region as it has moved from the experiments of the early independence era, through civil war and refugee flight, into the current era characterised by globalization and the demise of apartheid. Focused case studies from across the region deal with specific aspects of these transformations and their policy implications."