Searching for Tomorrow-South Sudanese Women Reconstructing Resilience through Photovoice
Abstract
Notes
Location
Calgary, Alberta
Key recommendations
Practitioners who work with refugees must interrogate their own pre-conceptions of resilience and how those pre-conceptions influence their expecations for refugees; Individual members of refugee communities are capable of defining their own needs; Important for refugees to have opportunities to connect to their past instead of being pushed to “move forward”
Key populations
Refugee women
Key findings
South Sudanese refugee women identify their own definition of resilience which includes: faith and spirituality, circles of support, and global community; Participants identify that resilience is an iterative process – cyclical rather than linear.
Gaps identified
There is a need to re-evaluate how “resilience” is understood by resettlement practitioners and consider the experiences and capacity of refugees themselves to define resilience
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
Participating women had been living in Canada from 3–13 years at the time of the study
Open-access – No
Community organizations