Being “resettlement-minded”: intersectional dimensions of refugee resettlement strategies and refusals in Jordan
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Abstract
This article analyses how gender, race, nationality, and related axes of power influence the way different groups approach resettlement as an institution, and the strategies employed to navigate it. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with Somali, Sudanese, Syrian, and Iraqi refugees in Jordan, as well as interviews with UN and NGO officials, we examine two dimensions of how “resettlement-minded” refugees enact agency in the resettlement process. First, we examine how some Somali and Sudanese women participants utilize NGO vocational and educational programs to position themselves as deserving and desirable candidates. Second, we explore how some Syrian and Iraqi women assert their political, linguistic, and familial identities by refusing resettlement. We argue that resettlement is not a “one-size-fits-all” solution that is passively done to refugees; rather, it is actively sought by some while rejected by others, through strategies reflecting complex identities and power structures.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it