Type of Document Master's Thesis Author DeVivo, Karen Fink Author's Email Address kfink1@gsu.edu URN etd-11282005-155102 Title The Wisconsin Hmong Resettlement Taskforce: An Ethnographic Analysis of Public Policy as a Cultural Process and Product Degree Master of Arts Department Anthropology and Geography Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Kathryn A. Kozaitis Committee Chair Emanuela Guano Committee Member Susan McCombie Committee Member Keywords
- Mutual assistance associations
- Anthropology of public policy
- Refugee resettlement
Date of Defense 2005-11-15 Availability unrestricted Abstract This thesis focuses on the Governor of Wisconsin’s Hmong Resettlement Taskforce that was charged in 2004 with making policy recommendations for the State about a large resettlement of Hmong refugees. Through participant-observation, interviews, and document analysis, the process of policy formation by the Taskforce is examined. This empirical, ethnographic study depicts this taskforce as a group of cultural agents and its work as a cultural process. Findings in this thesis center on the taskforce report and the constraints on the narrative that limited possible recommendations.Files
Filename Size Approximate Download Time (Hours:Minutes:Seconds)
28.8 Modem 56K Modem ISDN (64 Kb) ISDN (128 Kb) Higher-speed Access devivo_karen_f_200512_degree.pdf 951.10 Kb 00:04:24 00:02:15 00:01:58 00:00:59 00:00:05