{"title":"Migration Decision-Making Process: Dialectic Contradictions Experienced by Asylum-Seeking Women","authors":"Shira Leffel, Shir Piller, Einat Peled","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2023.2260823","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIncreasing 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.KEYWORDS: Migration decision makingGenderRefugee narrativesRelational dialectic theory Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2023.2260823","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACTIncreasing 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.KEYWORDS: Migration decision makingGenderRefugee narrativesRelational dialectic theory Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.