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Improving Long-Term Resettlement Services For Refugees, Asylees, And Asylum Seekers: Perspectives From Service Providers, Kristina M. Dunman
Improving Long-Term Resettlement Services For Refugees, Asylees, And Asylum Seekers: Perspectives From Service Providers, Kristina M. Dunman
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In the United States, rights of asylum and refuge are extended to people who can prove that they have been politically persecuted. Resettlement services for refugees and asylees often focus on the short-term acquisition of employment and English language skills. These policies ignore the long-term complexities involved in reestablishing individual and group identities after war trauma and resettlement. This research is an investigation into the perspectives of service providers who work with refugees, asylees, and asylum-seekers on the need for more comprehensive, long-term services to assist in the months and years following resettlement, and on potential programs to address those …
Viva Wallace Tampa Latins, The Politics Of Americanization, And The Progressive Party Campaign Of 1948, Jared G. Toney
Viva Wallace Tampa Latins, The Politics Of Americanization, And The Progressive Party Campaign Of 1948, Jared G. Toney
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This research deals with the presidential election of 1948 and the questions it
raises concerning issues of ethnic identity and the experiences of working-class migrants
in the U.S. South. Central to the discussion is the unprecedented success of third-party
challenger Henry Wallace and his Progressive campaign in the immigrant enclaves of
Tampa, Florida. Stigmatized by controversial foreign and domestic programs which drew
disabling connections between Wallace and the Communist Party, the Progressive Party
campaign hardly got its proverbial feet off the ground before falling victim to virulent
criticism and widespread opposition. Carrying just over two percent of the votes
nationwide, …