Wachter Karin, Bunn Mary, Schuster Roseanne C, Boateng Godfred O, Cameli Kaila, Johnson-Agbakwu Crista E
School of Social Work, Arizona State University, 411 N Central Avenue, Suite 800, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1601 W. Taylor Street, SPHPI MC 912, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
J Refug Stud. 2021 Jun 10;35(1):368-395. doi: 10.1093/jrs/feab040. eCollection 2022 Mar.
This study reviewed social support research with refugees in resettlement by assessing the scope of scholarship and examining methodological approaches, definitions, theoretical frameworks, domains, and sources of support. The scoping review followed a systematic approach that retained 41 articles for analysis. The findings indicate that refugee resettlement studies seldom conceptualizes social support as a central focus, defines the concept, draws from related theory, or examines multifaceted components of the construct. The review nevertheless yielded promising findings for future conceptual and empirical research. The analysis identified a wide range of relevant domains and sources of social support, laying the foundation for a socio-ecological model of social support specific to refugee experiences in resettlement. The findings also indicate an imperative to examine and theorize social support vis-à-vis diverse groups as a main outcome of interest, in connection to a range of relevant outcomes, and longitudinally in recognition of the temporal processes in resettlement.
本研究通过评估学术研究范围并审视方法论途径、定义、理论框架、领域及支持来源，对重新安置中的难民的社会支持研究进行了综述。范围综述采用了一种系统方法，保留了41篇文章进行分析。研究结果表明，难民重新安置研究很少将社会支持概念化为核心关注点，对这一概念进行定义，借鉴相关理论，或考察该结构的多方面组成部分。尽管如此，该综述为未来的概念性和实证研究产生了有前景的结果。分析确定了广泛的社会支持相关领域和来源，为针对重新安置中难民经历的社会支持社会生态模型奠定了基础。研究结果还表明，有必要将社会支持作为主要关注结果，针对不同群体进行考察和理论化，与一系列相关结果相联系，并纵向考察以认识重新安置中的时间进程。
