Rawan Arar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington. She completed her PhD at the University of California San Diego and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University. Her book, co-authored with David Scott FitzGerald, is The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach.Molly Fee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of South Florida. Her research examines how refugees interact with the institutions that grant rights and resources. Her book is entitled Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement.Heba Gowayed is Associate Professor of Sociology at CUNY Hunter College and Graduate Center and author of the award-winning book Refuge: How States Shape Human Potential. Her research and writing centers the lives of people who migrate across borders and the unequal and often violent institutions they face.Blair Sackett is a Fellow at the Immigration Lab at American University. She completed a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines the barriers refugees face in accessing resources, and her book, co-authored with Annette Lareau, is We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America.

• Preface Introduction: refugee resettlement as an institution 1. “We don’t have to resettle those refugees. Some other countries do”: how race affects the relationship between U.S. foreign policy and refugee admissions 2. Waithood and creativity in the absence of resettlement: evidence from “residual” Liberian refugees in Nigeria 3. Waiting for resettlement: experiences of Iranian refugee women in Turkey 4. The “not yet” and “never” resettled: individual and communal waiting strategies among refugees in Kenyan camps 5. Between hope and harm: the fragmentary effects of resettlement for Congolese refugees in Uganda 6. Anchors, archipelagos, and ports of departure: how resettlement shapes im/mobilities in Nyarugusu refugee camp, Tanzania 7. Being “resettlement-minded”: intersectional dimensions of refugee resettlement strategies and refusals in Jordan 8. Unpacking “expectation management”: the International Organization for Migration’s pre-departure orientation for resettling refugees 9. Working on resettlement: refugees in Kenya and everyday practices in pursuit of migration futures 10. “Heaven without people is not worth going to”: refugee resettlement, time, and the institutionalization of family separation 11. Brokering refugee integration: promises and pitfalls of refugee co-sponsorship in the United States 12. The power of sponsorship: power and moral action in private refugee resettlement