Negotiating knowledges and expertise in refugee resettlement organizations
Interviews with both refugees and organizational staff in two nonprofit refugee resettlement organizations in the United States reveal the ways in which knowledge(s) and expertise are crafted, threatened, and understood in refugee organizations. Refugee-participants described the need for knowledgea...
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| description | Interviews with both refugees and organizational staff in two nonprofit refugee resettlement organizations in the United States reveal the ways in which knowledge(s) and expertise are crafted, threatened, and understood in refugee organizations. Refugee-participants described the need for knowledgeable communication, barriers to the communication of knowledge, and processes of negotiating whose expertise is involved. Organizational staff participants described the duty of communicating expert knowledge, the limits of knowledge as expertise, and alternative communications of expertise. These tensions surrounding “knowing” in refugee resettlement organizations highlights the need for a more complex theoretical understanding of the processes of knowing present in refugee resettlement. These tensions also suggest areas in which refugee resettlement agencies and other nonprofit staff can make on-the-ground changes to better facilitate refugee resettlement processes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d05f871234d451791b077dfddba77802022-12-21T23:28:03ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Social Sciences2331-18862016-12-012110.1080/23311886.2016.11629901162990Negotiating knowledges and expertise in refugee resettlement organizationsSarah Steimel0Weber State UniversityInterviews with both refugees and organizational staff in two nonprofit refugee resettlement organizations in the United States reveal the ways in which knowledge(s) and expertise are crafted, threatened, and understood in refugee organizations. Refugee-participants described the need for knowledgeable communication, barriers to the communication of knowledge, and processes of negotiating whose expertise is involved. Organizational staff participants described the duty of communicating expert knowledge, the limits of knowledge as expertise, and alternative communications of expertise. These tensions surrounding “knowing” in refugee resettlement organizations highlights the need for a more complex theoretical understanding of the processes of knowing present in refugee resettlement. These tensions also suggest areas in which refugee resettlement agencies and other nonprofit staff can make on-the-ground changes to better facilitate refugee resettlement processes.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2016.1162990knowledgeknowingexpertiserefugee resettlementorganizational communication |
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| title | Negotiating knowledges and expertise in refugee resettlement organizations |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Negotiating knowledges and expertise in refugee resettlement organizations |
| title_short | Negotiating knowledges and expertise in refugee resettlement organizations |
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