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Adaptations of home: Mexican, Montagnard and Sudanese immigrants' use of space in Greensboro, NC. (2007 Advised by Patrick Lucas. "The new reality of the swelling immigrant population raises
issues of integration and the policies to achieve
it. Inherent in the term "integration" is the assumption
of a two-way process involving both immigrants and
residents; in turn, this implies that public policies
should support immigrants as they work to become a part of American
society (Singer, 2005). Each day brings new immigrants to North Carolina.
Whether coming as laborers, refugees or for a new start, the population's
housing needs must be understood. If not, as Arimah (1999) suggests "these
houses may then be abandoned, or where occupied,
greatly modified to suit the housing needs of their occupants" (p.
40). It is my belief that once an assessment of the changes the immigrants
make to their current homes takes place, interior architects will be
more capable of creating interior environments that better fit Greensboro's
Mexican, Montagnard and Sudanese populations.
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