Refugee Policy, Power, and Bureaucracy: Retheorizing bureaucrats as advocates in U.S. refugee resettlement

• In Event: Refugee Resettlement in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

This paper draws on novel interviews with private and public refugee resettlement organization directors to theorize a previously unseen role of bureaucrats—as advocates for progressive institutional change.

Authors

• Jess Howsam, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Jessica H Darrow, The University of Chicago