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Paper Presentation

Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Populations

Session: Diverse Approaches To Working with Refugee Youth

Youth Engagement Praxis and Refugee Youth: Congolese Refugee Youth Council Case Study

Sunday, October 27, 2024
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 3501B

    Presenter(s)

  • Irene Routte, MSW

    Ph.D. Candidate
    University of Michigan
    Grand Rapids, MI, United States

Youth engagement (YE) is theorized to have positive effects for marginalized youth, yet there is limited research on YE with refugee youth.This paper examines the development of a Congolese refugee youth council. It provides practice insights on benefits of YE for newcomer youth and expands conceptual categories around YE practice.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Relate both the unique challenges facing refugee youth in the United States and the positive outcomes associated with youth engagement spaces.
  2. Explain the different, tangible practices associated with four different youth engagement frameworks ( policy process, youth development, social justice, and symbolic tokenism).
  3. Debate which youth engagement framework, or combination of frameworks, and its associated practices, could be used with different groups of refugee youth depending on context and explain why it should be used.