Though the number of Nigerian immigrants in the United States has increased since 1965, the literature on transnational communities has been selective in its examination of this population. The present study examines the adjustment and settlement issues of Nigerian immigrants in…
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This research examines governmental and public sector collaboration within the context of immigrant and refugee resettlement. The recent arrival of large influxes of Somali and other secondary migrants into the cities of Portland and Lewiston, Maine, which led to the formation t…
In 1937, the U.S. Congress passed the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act, authorizing federal funds for the development of public housing. Twelve years later, Congress reauthorized this legislation with the American Housing Act of 1949. In the process,Congress converted a federal housi…
Pleasurable Labors is a comparative analysis of two contemporary soccer fan activist communities in Liverpool, England and Portland, Oregon. Together, Liverpool's Fans Supporting Foodbanks and Portland's Rose City Riveters illustrate how the particularities of place impact fan r…
This thesis aims to address the connections between racial tensions and the gentrification of the Albina district, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, and the inaccessible housing stock and lack of social infrastructure within the city, leading to the displac…
This dissertation examines how racism structures the lives and emotions of communities of color in Portland, Oregon. As the U.S. becomes more racially diverse, Portland remains the whitest U.S. city with a population over 500,000. It is also a site where African Americans, Latin…