Kristin Bergtora Sandvik is a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at PRIO and a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Her work has appeared in Polar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Refugee Survey Quarterly, the International Journal of Refugee Law, Disasters, the ICRC Review, Third World Quarterly, and the Law and Society Review.

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Introduction: Refugee Resettlement as Humanitarian Governance: Power Dynamics
Adèle Garnier, Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, and Liliana Lyra Jubilut

PART I: REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 1. Strategic Use of Resettlement: Enhancing Solutions for Greater Protection?
Joanne van Selm

Chapter 2. A Legal History: The Emergence of the African Resettlement Candidate in International Refugee Management
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

Chapter 3. Brazil's Refugee Resettlement: Power, Humanitarianism and Regional Leadership
Liliana Lyra Jubilut and Andrea Cristina Godoy Zamur

PART II: NATIONAL POLICIES AND IDEOLOGIES OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT

Chapter 4. Working It Out in Practice: Tensions Embedded in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Resolved through Implementation
Jessica H. Darrow

Chapter 5. Resettled Refugees and Work in Canada and Quebec: Humanitarianism and the Challenge of Mainstream Socioeconomic Participation
Adèle Garnier

Chapter 6. The Structural and Institutional Exclusion of Refugees in Australia
Ibolya Losoncz

Chapter 7. Shaping the Political Space for Resettlement: The Debate on Burden Sharing in Norway Following the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Linn Marie Reklev and Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

PART III: RESETTLEMENT BUREAUCRACIES AND RESETTLED REFUGEES IN LOCAL CONTEXTS

Chapter 8. Parallel Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Narratives of Cambodian and Karen Refugees in the United States
Denise C. Lewis and Savannah S. Young

Chapter 9. "Giving Cases Weight": Congolese Refugees' Tactics for Resettlement Selection
Marnie Jane Thomson

Chapter 10. The Politics of Resettlement: Expectations and Unfulfilled Promises in Chile and Brazil
Marcia A. Vera Espinoza

Conclusion: The Moral Economy of the Resettlement Regime
Astri Suhrke and Adèle Garnier

Annex: Current Refugee Resettlement Program Profiles
Amanda Cellini

Index