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Emily Greenbank has taken an interactional sociolinguistic approach to exploring former refugees’ employable identity negotiation in both interviews and authentic workplace interaction. In this presentation Emily will discuss participants’ cultural and social capital, discursive agency, and navigation of potentially disempowering (capital-D) Discourses of Refugeehood. This study draws attention to the two-way process of resettlement, in which both host society members and newcomers have roles to play in negotiating successful transitions from the peripheries of society to belonging.