Using Ethnography To Understand How Policies Reproduce Social Inequality - Laws

Using Ethnography To Understand How Policies Reproduce Social Inequality

 

CHAIRS: HYATT, Susan B. and VOGT, Wendy (IUPUI) 

LAWS, Brian V. (IUPUI) Co–existing with Chaos: Invisible Injuries and Reintegration among U.S. Military Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan 

CHAPMAN, Christina (IUPUI) Systems-Based and Integrated STEM Alternative Education Models 

BLICE, Derek (IUPUI) Welcoming the Unwelcome: Multicultural Centers in Enschede 

THANG, Lian (IUPUI) Out of Monsoon, Into the Snow: Refugee Resettlement, Liminality, and the Refugee as Neoliberal Subject 

DISCUSSANT: QUINTILIANI, Karen (CSULB)

 

ABSTRACT:

HYATT, Susan B. and VOGT, Wendy (IUPUI) Using Ethnography to Understand How Policies Reproduce Social Inequality. In this session, MA students from IUPUI will present work that shows how they are using ethnographic methods to understand the production and reproduction of social inequalities in policies dealing with such issues as migration and immigration; refugee resettlement; schooling; and for US veterans returning from active combat.  These papers will showcase the importance of situating the experiences of subjugated populations within the context of the policies and programs that contour their lives.  They illustrate how, despite their explicit intentions, such interventions may actually serve to increase social exclusion rather than to combat it. 

 

Session took place in Pittsburgh, PA at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2015.