Believing in Light after Darkness

War, persecution, and climate change too often force people from their homes and across borders. Most remain in difficult conditions in neighbouring countries. The less than one percent of refugees offered resettlement to a different country gain an alternative path forward, with access to specialised supports and services that are traditionally understood as a solution to displacement and a programme of integration.

Examining the complexities of refugees' lived experiences, Molly Fee's deeply humanistic ethnography reframes resettlement as a period of disruption and disorientation, when newly arrived refugees must navigate the rules and expectations of a new country. For those who have already rebuilt their lives numerous times, resettlement becomes yet another uprooting.

Believing in Light after Darkness reveals how humanitarian solutions, though well intentioned, do not immediately resolve the conditions of displacement.