Irene E. Routte

Irene Routté is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan in the joint program in Social Work and Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Her research is focused on refugee resettlement, forced migration and displacement, and centers how people are in relationship with their built and natural environment and its effects on well-being and community resilience/development. She is also engaged in research and practice at the intersection of race and immigration in the United States. Prior to her doctoral studies Irene worked in arts programming and case management with refugee youth and in higher education leadership development programs.