“…Meanwhile, other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Canada, supplement a public sponsorship approach with a "private sponsorship" or "community sponsorship" program whereby approved citizens and private institutions can sponsor refugees (Reynolds & Clark-Kazak, 2021). Countries in the African Union, on the other hand, apply a regional approach to refugee resettlement (Nicolosi & Momoh, 2022). The U.S. resettlement program has been celebrated as a welcoming humanitarian and generous program that sets the country as a world leader (Kerwin, 2018), but also critically analyzed and problematized for its deindividualized, market-oriented priorities (Gonzalez Benson, 2016), and assimilationist assumptions (Ong, 2003).…”