TY - JOUR
T1 - Sociocultural barriers to information and integration of women refugees
AU - Kainat, Khadijah
AU - Eskola, Eeva-Liisa
AU - Widén, Gunilla
PY - 2021/12/22
Y1 - 2021/12/22
N2 - This study focuses on specifically women refugees' experiences of accessing information and how sociocultural barriers impact these experiences aiming to broaden the LIS literature of women refugees' information problems from sociocultural aspects. The socioculturally formed roles of a woman can impact the information practices of women refugees or cause certain information problems during the integration process. Hence, the research questions that drive this study are: What kind of information problems might women refugees face in a new host country? What kind of sociocultural barriers influence their information problems? How do they react toward these information problems?
AB - This study focuses on specifically women refugees' experiences of accessing information and how sociocultural barriers impact these experiences aiming to broaden the LIS literature of women refugees' information problems from sociocultural aspects. The socioculturally formed roles of a woman can impact the information practices of women refugees or cause certain information problems during the integration process. Hence, the research questions that drive this study are: What kind of information problems might women refugees face in a new host country? What kind of sociocultural barriers influence their information problems? How do they react toward these information problems?
KW - information problems
KW - sociocultural barriers
KW - refugees' integration
KW - information overload
KW - lack of appropriate sources
KW - communication culture
KW - information and integration
KW - women refugees
KW - culture of collectivism
KW - small-world
KW - information literacy
KW - Role of women
U2 - 10.1108/JD-05-2021-0107
DO - 10.1108/JD-05-2021-0107
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-0418
JO - Journal of Documentation
JF - Journal of Documentation
ER -