"Who's Hiring the Indochinese Worker? Your Competition, Probably": Work, Welfare Dependency, and Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1975-1985
This Master’s thesis uses the Indochinese Refugee Foundation of Lowell, Massachusetts, a federally funded social service provider, as a case study in the local politics of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement. I argue that the Foundation’s archives offered an opportunity to study the local implement...
Main Author: | Bourgeois, Janelle |
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Format: | Others |
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2015
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/182 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1238&context=masters_theses_2 |
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