provided wise counsel on potential chapter authors, Jeff Sulik helped me rethink
my own views on "refugees as refugees" versus "refugees as immigrants,"
and fellow anthropologists like Carol Mortland and Janet Benson have produced
some excellent work that greatly encouraged me about the status of refugee
research. Appreciation for thoughts along the way also goes to Jeff McDonald,
Nguyen Manh Hung, Karen Rosenblum, Cynthia Harris (whom I was delighted
to find still with Greenwood Press), and valued former colleagues at the Office
of Refugee Resettlement (ORR): Barbara Chesnick, Linda Gordon, and David
Howell. Toyo Biddle and Loren Bussert at ORR were helpful with reports and
data and Bridget Austiguy-Preschel, Shelia Barrows, and Susan Badger provided
invaluable assistance in manuscript preparation. A few institutions also deserve
thanks: Virginia Commonwealth University and Georgetown University have
both managed to maintain credible library collections on refugee-related issues,
and the American Anthropological Association's Committee on Refugee Issues
has been a very congenial forum within which to rethink issues of refugee
policy, research, and praxis.

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