Citation: Brabec, Elizabeth. 2021. ‘If I have land, I feed my family’ – refugee resettlement through community gardening in Seattle, Women & Migration. Accessed November 26, 2021, https://womenandmigration.com/case-study/gardens/ archived https://perma.cc/U9E7-9XRQ and https://web.archive.org/web/20230130203341/https://womenandmigration.com/.
Published as part of the website “Women & Migration”
In 2019 and 2020, a group of researchers came together to discuss their research on women and the critical challenges they face during migration. This section, written by Elizabeth Brabec of the ISCCL, reflects the experiences once the resettlement process is over.
Interviews with a group of individuals of Mien and Lao ancestry from Seattle, USA, talked about the importance of land and community gardening. Access the case study at https://womenandmigration.com/case-study/gardens/, or at https://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_brabec/54/.
This article was one in a series of eight case studies published as a collaborative storytelling project about the journeys migrant women take. More than 100 testimonies were collected worldwide to shed light on how gender affects migration, and the resilience of those who seek a new life far from home.
The eight case studies and supporting information are published at the website (
https://womenandmigration.com/), and are based on research from the Women and Migration: Stories of Resilience project funded by the World University Network Research Development Fund. The project team members are: Floretta Boonzaier, University of Cape Town; Elizabeth Brabec, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Talitha Dubow, Maastricht University/ UNU-MERIT; Farida Fozdar, University of Western Australia; Ivan Katsere, University of Cape Town; Ortrun Merkle, Maastricht University/ UNU-MERIT; Linda Oucho, African Migration and Development Policy Centre; Marina de Regt, Free University of Amsterdam; Ann Singleton, University of Bristol; and Su-Lin Yu, National Cheng Kung University.
