Context, commitment, and competency: a refugee-community partnership model for smaller urban communities in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 524-530
Author(s):  
Beth Halaas ◽  
Bipasha Biswas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Refugee Community

“Putting Down Roots”

On the Move ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filiz Garip
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
First Time ◽  
Central South ◽  
Migrant Groups

This chapter discusses a particular group that continually increased its share among the first-time migrants between 1965 and 2010—from less than 10 percent to nearly 70 percent. This group, called urban migrants, included a large share of men, mostly from urban communities in the border, central-south, and southeastern regions of Mexico rather than the traditional migrant-sending rural communities in the central-west. Urban migrants were significantly more educated compared to the circular, crisis, and family migrants in the preceding chapters, and also relative to non-migrants at their time. The group worked mostly in manufacturing and construction in the United States, earned significantly higher wages than the other migrant groups, and made fewer return trips to Mexico.

Falling Through the Cracks: Stress and Coping in Migration and Resettlement Among Marginalized Hmong Refugee Families in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 104438942090139
Author(s):  
Hyojin Im
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Coping Resources ◽  
Coping Capacity ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
And Coping

The marginalization process of refugees during resettlement has rarely been explored empirically due to the challenges in identifying and accessing the population. To understand how stress and coping throughout the migration and resettlement processes can result in marginalization in refugees resettled in the United States, this study conducted in-depth individual interviews with 16 homeless Hmong refugee families. The findings revealed how cumulated adversities eroded coping resources and how impeded coping capacity fuels social isolation and marginalization. In addition, an enclosed family support system tends to limit types of available help and social interactions and thus frustrates the use of diversified coping strategies that are critical to healthy acculturation. This study underscores the importance of expanded resettlement services that promote both formal and informal social supports and enhance balanced social integration of the refugee community.

Rural Cross-Sector Collaboration

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 193S-215S ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Miller ◽  
Martin K. Scanlan ◽  
Kate Phillippo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Service Community ◽  
Rural Context

Schools throughout the United States apply comprehensive community partnership strategies to address students’ in- and out-of-school needs. Drawing from models like the Harlem Children’s Zone, Promise Neighborhoods, and full-service community schools, such strategies call for diverse professionals to reach beyond their own organizations to collaborate with complementary partners. Extant research on cross-sector collaboration focuses disproportionately on urban settings. This qualitative study examined three years of cross-sector collaboration in “Midvale,” a rural community in the western United States. Applying the conceptual framework of social frontiers, it illuminates how issues of difference, competition, and resource constraint impacted cross-sector collaboration in Midvale’s rural context.

scholarly journals Internet Control or Internet Censorship? Comparing the Control Models of China, Singapore, and the United States to Guide Taiwan’s Choice

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey (Chien-Fei) Li
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Internet Control ◽  
License System ◽  
Internet Censorship ◽  
Human Rights Standards

Internet censorship refers to a government’s unjustified scrutiny and control of online speech or government-approved control measures. The danger of Internet censorship is its chilling effect and substantial harm on free speech, a cornerstone of democracy, in cyberspace. This article compares China’s blocking and filtering system, Singapore’s class license system, and the United States’ government-private partnership model and identifies the features of each model. This article also explores the pros and cons of each model under international human rights standards. By finding lessons from each of the models, this article contends that Taiwan should retain its current minimal Internet control model. Further, Taiwan should fix flaws in its current Internet control system, including the private partnership model adopted by the Copyright Act, to be consistent with Article19.3 of the ICCPR.

scholarly journals Making Refuge

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Saulat Pervez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
Somali Bantu ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
Somali Refugee ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Village Elders

The term refugees has become the latest buzzword, causing people to eitherspew hate speech or extend a warm welcome – thereby creating a firmdividing line. There is so much discussion about refugees that peoplesometimes forget the very individuals who are forced to stand astride thatdividing line. Who are they? What are their stories? What does it mean tobe a refugee? How are they coping once they reach the United States?How are their lives impacted by this divisive debate? What are the strugglesthey continue to have? How are they influencing the larger communitieswhere they live? Catherine Besteman addresses all of these questions(and more) in her timely study, Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugeesand Lewiston, Maine.Besteman introduces the book by speaking of her yearlong stay in Banta,Somalia, as part of her anthropological fieldwork during the late 1980s, justbefore civil war broke out. She then immediately shifts the lens to Lewiston,Maine, in the year 2010, home to a large Somali refugee community. Juxtaposingthese two worlds to frame her inquiry, she delves into Banta’s pre-warhistory: a simple yet harmonious village life built around communitarianismand happiness within poverty, of agriculture and the “rule” of village elders, ofpre-defined gender roles and extended families ...

Onstage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Dyonne Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Small Farms

This chapter examines the persistence of coerced performances, this time on stage, throughout plantation communities, small farms, and some urban communities. Drawing on slave narratives, travel journals, planter's writings, and publications, it shows how the erroneous perceptions of race in the United States were staged within the performing arts. It describes coercion and expectation to perform as an important component of the institution of slavery. Whites continually asserted negative racial stereotypes concerning music and dance while constantly forcing the slaves to perform. The chapter considers how these onstage performances veiled white fears of black rebellion while portraying a paternalistic society to Northerners, European observers, and abolitionists. It argues that the racial imagery within these public performances exhibited blacks' role as submissive in society while whites, the audience, remained superior.

Voices, Not Numbers: Towards a Greater Democracy in Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Carl A. Grant
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Democracy In Education ◽  
Measuring Outcomes ◽  
Children’S Voices ◽  
Taking Action

U.S. educational policy and practice adhere to the old proverb that "children should be seen and not heard."… Arguments for children—often made by children themselves—having voice and taking action on matters that affect their lives are rarely taken seriously.… Nevertheless, protecting children's welfare need not exclude inviting them to speak on education issues. In some countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, children's voices and opinions are considered vital…. In the United States, children's voices are not sought out. They are most often the "objects of inquiry,"… [seen]…"as either a window onto universal psychological laws or as indicators of treatment effects. In both cases, the children themselves are simply instruments…vehicles for measuring outcomes."… Black and brown children in particular are made into "objects of inquiry," and are accordingly more watched, restricted, and disciplined.… Further, black and brown children, especially in poor and urban communities, have had their humanity devalued against that of children in whiter, wealthier schools.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Foundations in Canada: A Comparative Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (13) ◽  
pp. 1777-1802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter R. Elson ◽  
Jean-Marc Fontan ◽  
Sylvain Lefèvre ◽  
James Stauch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
Canadian Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similar Range

From a Canadian perspective, this article provides a comparative historical and contemporary overview of foundations in Canada, in relation to the United States and Germany. For the purposes of this analysis, the study was limited to public or private foundations in Canada, as defined by the Income Tax Act. As the Canadian foundation milieu straddles the welfare partnership model that characterizes German civil society and the Anglo-Saxon model of the United States, Canadian foundations as a whole have much in common with the foundation sector in both countries. Similarities include the number of foundations per capita, a similar range in size and influence, a comparable diversity of foundation types, and an explosion in the number of foundations in recent decades (although the United States has a much longer history of large foundations making high-impact interventions). This analysis also highlights some key differences among larger foundations in the three jurisdictions: German foundations are generally more apt to have a change-orientation and are more vigorous in their disbursement of income and assets. U.S. foundations are more likely to play a welfare-replacement role in lieu of inaction by the state. Canadian foundations play a complementary role, particularly in the areas of education and research, health, and social services. At the same time, there is a segment of Canadian foundations that are fostering innovation, social and policy change, and are embarking on meaningful partnerships and acts of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

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