ABSTRACT

Refugees in the Netherlands are prioritized and given assistance with housing, although they have no say in where this housing is located. In this paper, we explore how recently arrived Syrian refugees cope with these regulatory practices by the national government and how their process of homemaking evolves in the new environments assigned to them. The article draws on qualitative data, including sedentary and walk-along interviews and pictures taken by recently arrived Syrian refugees in different Dutch cities. It shows how daily routines are vital for the social incorporation of refugees and how specific places can harm, but also matter, for processes of homemaking. Refugees actively find “places of restoration”—both within their new locality and beyond—and it is both the claim to belong as well as the claim to exert control over their own lives that plays an important role in newly arrived Syrians’ homemaking processes.

摘要

荷兰的难民被优先安排住房事务并给予了援助，尽管他们对住房的所在地没有发言权。在本文中，我们探讨了最近抵达的叙利亚难民如何应对国家政府的这些监管做法，以及他们在新分配的环境中的家庭生产过程如何发展。本文利用定性数据，包括久坐和随行访谈以及最近在荷兰不同城市抵达的叙利亚难民所拍摄的照片。它显示了日常活动对于难民融入社会至关重要，以及特定的地方如何危害家庭过程，但也很重要。