Building refuge: narratives from the private sponsorship of refugees program in the Lethbridge, Alberta area

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dc.contributor.authorBesplug, Mariah Kelsey
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorYoung, Julie
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-21T17:49:16Z
dc.date.available2021-10-21T17:49:16Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractSince 1978, Canadians have been resettling refugees through Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program. Sustained critical engagement with the PSR Program is important because of its projected growth within Canada and its use in guiding similar policy development in other countries. I conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with sponsors and refugees from the Lethbridge, Alberta area in the summer and fall of 2020. Their stories demonstrate that the sponsorship experience is influenced by refugee, sponsor, and community characteristics, the relationships between these groups, and the broader contextual setting. This project seeks to add to the growing literature on Canada’s PSR Program by exploring the sponsorship experience through the lens of sponsors and refugees who have first-hand experience and build on feminist discussions and conceptualizations of geographical scale.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6076
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subject0366en_US
dc.proquest.subject0630en_US
dc.proquest.subject0385en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Geography and Environmenten_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Geography and Environmenten_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectrefugeesen_US
dc.subjectprivate sponsorshipen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectfeminist geographyen_US
dc.subjectRefugees -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectRefugees -- Services for -- Canada -- Citizen participationen_US
dc.subjectFeminist geographyen_US
dc.subjectHumanitarian assistance, Canadianen_US
dc.subjectEmigration and immigrationen_US
dc.subjectRefugees -- Alberta -- Lethbridge -- Interviewsen_US
dc.subjectPrivate Sponsorship of Refugees Program (Canada)en_US
dc.subjectRefugees -- Government policy -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectRefuge (Humanitarian assistance) -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectCanada -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policyen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleBuilding refuge: narratives from the private sponsorship of refugees program in the Lethbridge, Alberta areaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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