Part VI: Resources: The Refugee Experience: Defining the Parameters of a Field of Study 1

Abstract

This article deals with the following stages of the refugee experience: perception of a threat; decision to flee; the period of extreme danger and flight; reaching safety; camp behavior; repatriation, settlement or resettlement; the early and late stages of resettlement; adjustment and acculturation; and residual states and changes in behavior caused by the refugee experience.