ABSTRACT Whereas conventional theories depict the migrant organization in terms of its social and cultural dimensions, an emerging line of research expands “established models” of migrant organizations, empirically by widening the scope of analysis to include informal entities, and theoretically by taking account of their complex, dynamic functions. This study joins such discussions by examining the activities of refugee-run organizational entities, and then developing a synthesizing theoretical framework. Data were collected through 40 interviews of organizational leaders in 30 U.S. states, using Bhutanese refugees as case study. Findings suggest five types of “welfare support activities” of refugee-run grassroots organizations, and thus a repositioning within their institutional network, raising questions about organizational legitimacy and access to resources.

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草根难民社区组织的福利支持活动：重构

摘要 传统理论从社会和文化维度来描述移民组织，而新兴的研究路线扩展了移民组织的“既定模型”，经验上通过扩大分析范围以包括非正式实体，并在理论上考虑到他们的复杂的动态函数。本研究通过检查难民经营的组织实体的活动，然后制定综合理论框架来加入此类讨论。数据是通过对美国 30 个州的组织领导人的 40 次访谈收集的，以不丹难民为案例研究。调查结果表明难民经营的基层组织有五种类型的“福利支持活动”，从而在其机构网络中重新定位，