{"id":503,"date":"2016-03-04T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/?p=503"},"modified":"2016-03-04T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:03:03","slug":"refugee-resettlement-national-structure-and-local-inputs-that-influence-massachusettss-refugee-assistance-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/2016\/03\/04\/refugee-resettlement-national-structure-and-local-inputs-that-influence-massachusettss-refugee-assistance-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugee resettlement: National structure and local inputs that influence Massachusetts&#8217;s refugee assistance programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Refugee resettlement: National structure and local inputs that influence Massachusetts&#8217;s refugee assistance programs<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Author: <\/strong>Maineri<strong>, <\/strong>Terese-Louise<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>2002<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Master\u2019s thesis, Clark University, Department of International Development and Social Change<\/p>\n<p>This paper examines the Massachusetts Refugee Resettlement Program by focusing on Lutheran Social Services Refugee and Immigrant Services of Worcester, a nonprofit social service agency which assists refugees with resettlement in Worcester, Massachusetts. The author considers Neo-liberalism, New Institutional Economics and participatory development as they relate to the Massachusetts Refugee Resettlement Program. The study indicates that the participation of refugees in decision-making improves the likelihood that they will achieve self-sufficiency rather than depend on federal aid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>refugees, resettlement programs, participatory development, self-sufficiency, Neo-liberalism, New Institutional Economics, Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cataloged by:<\/strong> Selina Sikder\/ B. J. Perkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Refugee resettlement: National structure and local inputs that influence Massachusetts&#8217;s refugee assistance programs \u00a0Author: Maineri, Terese-Louise Date: 2002 Description: Master\u2019s thesis, Clark University, Department of International Development and Social Change This paper examines the Massachusetts Refugee Resettlement Program by focusing on Lutheran Social Services Refugee and Immigrant Services of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/2016\/03\/04\/refugee-resettlement-national-structure-and-local-inputs-that-influence-massachusettss-refugee-assistance-programs\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30341,30314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-masters-theses","category-refugees-in-worcester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/refugeearchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}