Successful integration refers to refugees' ability to participate in their local community,
access resources, and become citizens. Social capital, or the resources available through …

Older and younger refugees have different experiences integrating into host countries. In the
US, older Bhutanese refugees may face additional barriers when integrating, due to limited …

This study explores primary integration outcomes among 270 Bhutanese refugees, including
education, employment, income, and health variables. Findings confirm that Bhutanese …

Policy related to refugee integration focuses on economic factors, while integration is not
clearly operationalized nor is it being systematically measured and tracked in policy …

This thesis seeks to understand the extent to which prevailing conceptual frameworks can
explain the experience of integration for refugees. It also seeks to incorporate the …

This pilot study examined levels of social capital and their associations with the health status
of Burundian refugees, who have recently increased in number in the United States. The …

METHODS Following Institutional Review Board approval, purposeful and snowballing
sampling procedures were used to select study participants (N= 103) from a large …

Community integration is a key to successful resettlement among refugees coming to the
United States. Despite the potential benefits of community integration, to date there is no …

Social networks and access to resources are important to refugee integration but there is
limited research with people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. This mixed …

Abstract The Indicators of Integration framework—a conceptual framework defining core
domains of refugee integration—has had a significant impact on the discourse surrounding …