How American Attitudes about Race, Ethnicity, and Gender affect the Health and Wellbeing of Black-African Refugee Men in the United States

Abstract

More than half of all refugees currently resettled in the United States are racial-ethnic-minority men. Yet refugee health scholarship has not fully explored racial ethnic minority refugee men’s encounters with resettlement environment norms about race, ethnicity and gender. This paper describes an intersectionalinformed qualitative study of the daily stressors experienced by Black-African refugee men in the United States to explain how such experiences impact their health and wellbeing. These men’s life narratives illuminate how stigma and discrimination associated with race, ethnicity, gender affect their health and wellbeing during resettlement. These findings offer evidence that the realities of ethnic minority refugee men in the United States, while unique, can contribute to broader discourses about minority men’s health inequities.