This qualitative inquiry explores aspects of refugee adaptation. As refugees negotiate an adaptation process into their host cultures, secondary communities, those who possess certain commonalities and similarities with the newcomers, often act as intermediaries between the refugee groups and host cultures. This paper tries to answer the question: how does a refugee group’s extended community of an intermediary group affect the group’s adaptation to their new environment and social context? The inquiry is an exploration of narratives of a particular refugee group in the United States, called Meskhetian Turks, ethnically Turkish refugees from Russia.