1. Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential with Heba Gowayed (Episode 16)
- Author:
- Heba Gowayed
- Publication Date:
- 09-2024
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR), Rutgers University School of Law
- Abstract:
- Drawing on a global and comparative ethnography, Professor Heba Gowayed (https://www.hebagowayed.com/) explores how Syrian men and women seeking refuge in a moment of unprecedented global displacement are received by countries of resettlement and asylum—the U.S., Canada, and Germany. It shows that human capital, typically examined as the skills immigrants bring with them that shape their potential, is actually created, transformed, or destroyed by receiving states’ incorporation policies. Since these policies derive from historically informed and unequal approaches to social welfare, refugees’ experiences raise a mirror to how states (re)produce inequality.
- Topic:
- Immigration, Refugees, Displacement, Syrian War, Resettlement, Asylum, and Social Welfare
- Political Geography:
- Syria and Global Focus