http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0394737
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Community, Culture and Global Studies, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Abuhamed, Amer
issued: 2020-10-15T18:18:57Z
issued: 2020
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: The settlement of Syrian refugees in Canada has attended a conversation around the politics of multiculturalism and informed a body of scholarly works on immigrant and refugee integration. With the regionalization of immigrants and refugees, settlement in small and mid-sized cities has attracted further attention. Successive federal governments implemented neoliberal policies that off-loaded much of its responsibility for refugee settlement on local communities, voluntary actors, and private organizations. The federal government adopted social capital as a public policy tool in 2004 to foreground the discourses of self-reliance and communal responsibility. Simultaneously, multicultural federal policies have been amended and continually repurposed from being a framework for a pan-Canadian conversation to a set of expectations and procedures termed the settlement of immigrants and refugees. This thesis is based on a qualitative case study at the intersection of multiculturalism and social capital in refugee settlement which employ the narrative meanings of Syrian refugees who resettled in Kelowna, BC, between 2015 and 2020. Through 20 unstructured and semi-structured interviews with Syrian refugees and private sponsors and service providers, I employ abductive and thematic analyses and present results through an ethnographic description and interpretation. While much of the literature employs evaluative frameworks and accentuates settlement outcomes, I hypothesize that settlement acquires different meanings across refugees and their host community, and that social capital and neoliberal policies, in part, serve to saddle under-resourced communities with the responsibilities of refugee settlement, and task refugees with self-care and cultural benevolence. I conclude that refugee settlement exposes multicultural policies as assimilation policies, and I provide insights into the theories of social capital and multiculturalism and their employment in neoliberal policies. …
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note: “Eat to Your Taste, Dress for Others:” A Critical Ethnographic Inquiry into Multiculturalism and Social Capital in the Resettlement and Integration of Syrian Refugee in a Mid-sized City in Western Canada by Amer Abuhamed B.Sc., American University of Beirut, 2016 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) October 2020 © Amer Abuhamed, 2020ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: “Eat to Your Taste, Dress for Others:” A Critical Ethnographic Inquiry into Multiculturalism and Social Capital in the Resettlement and Integration of Syrian Refugee in a Mid-sized City in Western Canada submitted by Amer Younes Abuhamed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies . Dr. David Geary, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, Univeristy of British Columbia. Supervisor Dr. Natalie Kouri-Towe, The Faculty of Arts and Science, The Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University. Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Jessica Stites-Mor, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of History and Sociology, University of British Columbia. Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Luis Aguiar, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of History and Sociology, University of British Columbia. University Examiner iii Abstract The settlement of Syrian refugees in Canada has attended a conversation around the politics of multiculturalism and informed a body of scholarly works on immigrant and refugee integration. With the regionalization of immigrants and refugees, settlement in small and mid-sized cities has attracted further attention. Successive federal govern…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2020-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0394737
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
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publisher: University of British Columbia
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scholar level: Graduate
title: “Eat to Your Taste, Dress for Others:” A Critical Ethnographic Inquiry into Multiculturalism and Social Capital in the Resettlement and Integration of Syrian Refugee in a Mid-sized City in Western Canada
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identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/76291