2021/05/03 by Farida Fozdar · 23 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Citizenship #Economic growth #Ethnology #Existentialism #Gender studies #Geography #Law #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Health and Trauma #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Political science #Politics #Refugee #Settlement (finance) #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1111/imig.12862
published in International Migration 61(1), 23-38 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2021/05/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/26
Abstract Black African migrants have recently become a visible presence in Australia. Many arrived through the humanitarian resettlement programme, but far greater numbers come through the “skilled stream”. This paper explores recent research into these populations to tease out how material, social and existential elements of settlement intersect with belonging. As a heuristic, it uses Ager and Strang's ten markers and means of integration: material aspects (employment, housing, education and health); social connections internally and externally; facilitators (language, cultural knowledge, safety, stability); and rights and citizenship. A range of challenges to positive settlement and integration are identified, using these domains. However, Australian research has focused almost exclusively on African migrants of refugee background, with most sampling South Sudanese, making generalization impossible, even dangerous. The urgent need for research using wider samples, and more large‐scale quantitative work, is called for and a range of policy recommendations suggested.