@article{ref1,
title="Everyday resilience: Narratives of single refugee women with children",
journal="Qualitative social work",
year="2013",
author="Lenette, Caroline and Brough, Mark and Cox, Leonie",
volume="12",
number="5",
pages="637-653",
abstract="This article offers a critical exploration of the concept of resilience, which is largely conceptualized in the literature as an extraordinary atypical personal ability to revert or 'bounce back' to a point of equilibrium despite significant adversity. While resilience has been explored in a range of contexts, there is little recognition of resilience as a social process arising from mundane practices of everyday life and situated in person-environment interactions. Based on an ethnographic study among single refugee women with children in Brisbane, Australia, the women's stories on navigating everyday tensions and opportunities revealed how resilience was a process operating inter-subjectively in the social spaces connecting them to their environment. Far beyond the simplistic binaries of resilience versus non-resilient, we concern ourselves here with the everyday processual, person-environment nature of the concept. We argue that more attention should be paid to day-to-day pathways through which resilience outcomes are achieved, and that this has important implications for refugee mental health practice frameworks.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1473-3250",
doi="10.1177/1473325012449684",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325012449684"
}