TY - JOUR
T1 - Migration Decision-Making Process
T2 - Dialectic Contradictions Experienced by Asylum-Seeking Women
AU - Leffel, Shira
AU - Piller, Shir
AU - Peled, Einat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 World Communication Association.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Increasing numbers of migrants have fled human rights abuses, seeking refugee status. This study, involving semi-structured interviews with 12 African asylum-seeking women in Israel, explores their decision to leave home, journey to, and enter Israel without legal authorization. It further examines their retrospective view of leaving home amidst their experiences in Israel. Guided by a qualitative descriptive approach, the analysis reveals contradictory themes: autonomy/absence of autonomy in migration decision-making and positive/negative sentiments about life in Israel. We discuss these findings in relation to international migration determinant theories, relational dialectic theory, and research on communicative tensions experienced by refugees.
AB - Increasing numbers of migrants have fled human rights abuses, seeking refugee status. This study, involving semi-structured interviews with 12 African asylum-seeking women in Israel, explores their decision to leave home, journey to, and enter Israel without legal authorization. It further examines their retrospective view of leaving home amidst their experiences in Israel. Guided by a qualitative descriptive approach, the analysis reveals contradictory themes: autonomy/absence of autonomy in migration decision-making and positive/negative sentiments about life in Israel. We discuss these findings in relation to international migration determinant theories, relational dialectic theory, and research on communicative tensions experienced by refugees.
KW - Gender
KW - Migration decision making
KW - Refugee narratives
KW - Relational dialectic theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173467908&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17475759.2023.2260823
DO - 10.1080/17475759.2023.2260823
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AN - SCOPUS:85173467908
SN - 1747-5759
VL - 52
SP - 527
EP - 546
JO - Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
JF - Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
IS - 5
ER -