New publication: Making Your Own Weather: Self-reliance and Working for Resettlement Among Sudanese
Does self-reliance reduce the impetus for refugees to seek further travel towards Europe and other countries? How is this experienced by those excluded from mainstream humanitarian assistance?
Based on research with Sudanese refugees in Jordan, this article argues that rather than reducing the desire for onwards movement, refugees’ relational, physical, and administrative work to develop a stable life also has an explicit orientation towards resettlement and further travel. This challenges the dichotomy between self-reliance and resettlement and recognises the multiple domains of work that contribute to refugees’ current well-being and future plans. Doing so encourages us to further interrogate how policy and programming in refugee contexts can support refugees’ own long-term aspirations and solutions.