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Creating Social Networks: Resettlement Center For Burmese Refugees, Kelly Lynne Clarke
Creating Social Networks: Resettlement Center For Burmese Refugees, Kelly Lynne Clarke
Architecture Theses
The refugee resettlement program in the United States must encourage both the formation of refugee communities and integration within the larger community. I propose a multiuse building to strengthen refugee communities [bonding social networks] and connect refugees to the larger community [bridging social networks]. Both of these connections are essential for refugees to become integrated in a community. The building will be run by Lutheran Social Services who currently assists in the resettlement of refugees in the Springfield, Massachusetts area, with assistance in funding from the Wilson-Fish Discretionary Grant Program which provides financial support for alternative models of resettlement.
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