Place-making and its impact on health and wellbeing among recently resettled refugees in high income contexts : a scoping review

Refugee families and diasporic communities are scattered across the globe (Sampson and Gifford, 2010), and resettled refugees are often subject to racism and ‘othering’ (viewing or treating people as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself) in resettlement countries (Bartlett et al., 2017). Relational place-making aspects are particularly relevant in this regard, as they emphasise agency and active participation, rather than focusing on top-down, structural expressions of place-making which may or may not reflect the sociocultural values or priorities of resettled refugees.