A community-based qualitative study of intergenerational resilience with Palestinian refugee families facing structural violence and historical trauma

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dc.contributor.authorAtallah, Devin G.
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-10T13:10:50Z
dc.date.available2024-01-10T13:10:50Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to explore resilience processes in Palestinian refugee families living under Israeli occupation for multiple generations. Qualitative methods, critical postcolonial theories, and community-based research approaches were used to examine intergenerational protective practices and to contribute to reconceptualizations of resilience from indigenous perspectives. First, the researcher developed a collaborative partnership with a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in a UN refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Then, with the support of this NGO, semistructured group and individual interviews were completed with a total of 30 participants (N=30) ranging in age from 18 to 90 years old coming from 5 distinct extended family networks. Using grounded theory situational analysis, the findings were organized in a representation entitled Palestinian Refugee Family Trees of Resilience (PRFTR). These findings explain resilience in terms of three interrelated themes: (a) Muqawama/resistance to military siege and occupation; (b) Awda/return to cultural roots despite historical and ongoing settler colonialism; and (c) Sumoud/perseverance through daily adversities and accumulation of trauma. The study findings shed light on how Palestinian families cultivate positive adaptation across generations and highlight how incorporating community-based perspectives on the historical trauma and violent social conditions of everyday life under occupation may be critical for promoting resilience. Results may be relevant to understanding the transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience within other displaced communities internationally.
dc.description.funderUniversity of Massachusetts Boston's Graduate Studies Dissertation Support Grant
dc.description.funderCraig R. Bollinger Memorial Research Grant from the University of Massachusetts Boston's Graduate Student Assembly
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2024-05-14
dc.format.extent27 páginas
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1363461517706287
dc.identifier.eissn1461-7471
dc.identifier.issn1363-4615
dc.identifier.pubmedidMEDLINE:28517968
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1363461517706287
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/77944
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000402182000004
dc.information.autorucIngeniería;Atallah D;S/I;1034598
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido parcial
dc.pagina.final383
dc.pagina.inicio357
dc.publisherSAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
dc.revistaTRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectcommunity-based research
dc.subjectfamily resilience
dc.subjecthistorical trauma
dc.subjectPalestinian refugees
dc.subjectqualitative methods
dc.subjectstructural violence
dc.subjecttransgenerational transmission
dc.subjectPOSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER
dc.subjectMENTAL-HEALTH
dc.subjectPOLITICAL VIOLENCE
dc.subjectWAR
dc.subjectCONSEQUENCES
dc.subjectPERSPECTIVES
dc.subjectEXPOSURE
dc.subjectDECADES
dc.subjectPTSD
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleA community-based qualitative study of intergenerational resilience with Palestinian refugee families facing structural violence and historical trauma
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen54
sipa.codpersvinculados1034598
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.indexScopus
sipa.trazabilidadCarga SIPA;09-01-2024
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