Refugee Resettlement in the United States

In an era of unprecedented forced migration, this book provides valuable and timely insights into how refugees in the US are impacted by the discourses, policy and education practices they encounter. The research-based chapters offer ways to rethink assumptions and ideologies surrounding refugees, so often positioned as victims and a burden on institutions. A readable and important book.

-- Jenny Miller, Monash University, Australia

Global refugee populations are growing, and their resettlement needs can no longer be considered marginal. This book, devoted to resettlement policies, practices and pedagogies for refugees, helps put the education of refugee students where it belongs – on the mainstream agenda.

-- Misty Adoniou, University of Canberra, Australia

This important book offers an extraordinarily rich contribution to our understandings of the relationship between refugees and a broad range of social structures, including schools, the media, non-government organizations and bureaucracies. The collection provides original insights into the discursive, political and pedagogical processes that define refugees as a category and shape the experiences of those who fall within it. The chapters provide shining examples of interdisciplinary scholarship across the fields of applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and policy studies.

-- Joel Windle, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil

This volume provides many excellent examples of the use of critical discourse analysis (...) Each chapter of this volume employs different ways of doing critical
discourse analysis to examine societal power relations through the examination of the language use. Therefore, the volume is definitely a good reference for graduate students and researchers who are looking to do critical discourse analysis. With its content, organization and the clarity in its language use, this book may also be of interest to a wider audience including policy makers, educators and agencies whose work concerns this diverse group often referred to as refugees.

-- Virak Chan, Purdue University, USA * Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 17:1 *

This book is a must read for those working with refugees, from educators to policymakers and agency workers at the state and federal levels. The volume is key to continuing discussion about how policy interacts with practice, as well as with the lives of those directly affected by, and living among, policies.

-- Caroline Marks and Karen E. Lillie, State University of New York at Fredonia, USA * Language Policy (2017)