The mental health of resettled refugees is not only affected by the trauma they experience before and while fleeing persecution, but also by experiences during the resettlement process. Drawing on a qualitative study of refugees' experiences of mental wellbeing in a small Canadian city this paper documents participants' experiences of microaggression and everyday resistance. In our analysis, we refer to the metaphor of uprooting that is often used to describe the totality of refugee displacement. In our expansion of the metaphor, microaggression re-uproots resettled refugees by challenging their right to be where they are. Using acts of everyday resistance, participants in our sample attempted to set down roots in the resettlement context despite microaggressions. Participants' acts of everyday resistance are captured under five themes: rejecting victimhood, rejecting burden narratives, ignorance as an explanation, the transience of vulnerability, and setting down roots. This study contributes to the literature that de-emphasizes the vulnerability narrative of refugee mental health by demonstrating the role of personal agency in refugees' experiences of their own wellbeing.

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难民安置叙事中的微观侵略和日常抵抗

被安置难民的心理健康不仅受到他们在遭受迫害之前和逃离迫害时所经历的创伤，而且还受到安置过程中的经历的影响。本文利用对加拿大一个小城市难民心理健康体验的定性研究，记录了参与者的微攻击和日常抵抗的经历。在我们的分析中，我们提到了经常用来描述难民流离失所的整体情况的连根拔起的比喻。在我们对这个比喻的扩展中，微侵略通过挑战难民在原地的权利，使他们重新连根拔起。使用日常抵抗行为，我们样本中的参与者试图在重新安置环境中扎根，尽管存在微侵略。参与者的日常抵抗行为被分为五个主题：拒绝受害、拒绝负担叙述、无知作为解释、脆弱性的短暂性和扎根。本研究通过展示个人能动性在难民自身福祉体验中的作用，为不再强调难民心理健康脆弱性叙述的文献做出贡献。