Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Several years ago the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) announced a “Plan for Transformation” which included the relocation of all public housing residents over a ten-year period. The MacArthur Foundation is funding research to help the CHA improve the relocation process; NORC is collecting data from public housing residents to inform relocation improvements.

During the planning phase of the project various groups interested in the improvement process talked about both the benefits and drawbacks of using public housing residents to collect these data. Those in-favor of using public housing residents to collect the data argued that public housing residents are more comfortable talking to other public housing residents and more likely to honestly disclose their experiences. Those not-in-favor of using public housing residents as interviewers argued that public housing residents are angry with the CHA and may influence respondents’ answers.

NORC recruited and hired half of the interviewing staff for this project from within the CHA developments. NORC randomly assigned half of the addresses in each building to CHA resident interviewers and the other half to non-CHA resident interviewers. The paper will describe the interviewer recruiting and hiring process, the interviewer training, and the operational strategies employed during data collection. The paper will also examine and compare the data collected by CHA resident interviewers and non-CHA resident interviewers.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate the role of a pharmacy resident in a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to weight management as part of the educational experience during a PGY1 residency.
METHODS: The Department of Veterans Affairs has initiated a national multidisciplinary weight loss program in 2006. Patients at our VA institution participated in both individual and weekly group sessions with various members of a multidisciplinary team, which included a pharmacy resident. The resident’s interventions included providing weight management education, medication therapy management, and individual counseling sessions. Periodic meetings with the residency coordinator and other health care professionals were done to assess the resident’s activities. In addition, patient satisfaction surveys were administered at the end of each group session.
RESULTS: During the study time period, two 10-week program periods were completed and included four group educational sessions conducted by the pharmacy resident. Topics during the group sessions included weight-management education and the benefits of weight loss. A total of 54 (80%) subjects were interested in a consult with the pharmacy resident for medication therapy management and 33 (61%) were actually seen. Satisfaction surveys revealed that 96% of patients believed that they benefited from the resident’s interventions.
CONCLUSION: The inclusion of a pharmacy resident in a multidisciplinary weight loss clinic proved beneficial from both an educational and patient outcomes perspective. The resident was provided an opportunity to refine their clinical, communication, and project management skills as part of this clinic. Both patients and allied health professions valued the contributions of a pharmacy resident.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between citizenship policies and noncitizen political behavior, focusing on extra-electoral forms of political participation by Korean residents in Japan. I analyze the institutional factors that have mediated the construction of Korean collective identity in Japan and, in turn, the ways that Korean community activists have re-conceptualized possibilities for their exercise of citizenship as foreign residents in Japan. My empirical analysis is based on a theoretical framework that defines citizenship as an interactive process of political incorporation, performance, and participation. I posit that the various dimensions of citizenship—its legal significance, symbolic meaning, claims and responsibilities, and practice—are performed, negotiated, and restructured in a triangular interactive relationship between the state, citizens, and noncitizens.
I address a puzzle that is both specific to Koreans in Japan and generalizable to foreign permanent residents in other advanced industrial democracies: Given their high levels of cultural assimilation, why does citizenship remain the last vestige of identity within the Korean community in Japan? Unlike previous studies that have focused on stringent citizenship policies at the level of the state alone, this paper explores the interactive process between institutions and communities. Based on their legal status, we would expect social movements in Japan’s Korean community to center around the quest for citizenship acquisition. Yet, the findings of this paper demonstrate that Korean organizations have concentrated their efforts on securing the community’s foreign citizenship status. I argue that postwar Japan’s ethnocultural citizenship policies both shaped Korean political identity in Japan and structured political opportunities for Korean activists to negotiate the terms of their community’s incorporation. Especially in recent years, new generations of Korean activists have reinterpreted the meaning of Korean citizenship as identity and practice in movements to democratize Japanese society. Rather than naturalize and become a small section of the voting population, Korean activists have increasingly used their noncitizen status as their “voice” to express their opposition to state policies. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Osaka over a twelve-month period, this paper explores how citizenship policies affect the political identities, claims, and strategies of noncitizen communities.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Sociologists have documented extensively the existence of segregated neighborhoods, but they have paid less attention to integrated ones. This paper uses survey data of over 200 residents in a gentrifying neighborhood in Portland, Oregon that is going through many changes, including an influx of white middle-class residents. The main goal is to measure residents' opinions about the neighborhood. We look at how residents currently evaluate the neighborhood, including the existence and severity of neighborhood problems, as well as how they view past neighborhood changes and predict future changes. We then analyze whether there are differences in opinion between old-timers (who have been living in the neighborhood since before gentrification), gentrifiers (who have moved into the neighborhood since gentrification began and have a higher socioeconomic status), and non-gentrifiers (who have moved into the neighborhood since gentrification began, but do not have a higher socioeconomic status). We also examine whether there are differences in opinion based on race.

We find that the biggest differences are between white old-timers and gentrifiers, on the one hand, and black old-timers and black and white non-gentrifiers, on the other. White old-timers and gentrifiers have a more positive outlook on neighborhood changes yet perceive more neighborhood problems, both in terms of crimes such as drug dealing and especially "quality of life" violations like trash in the streets and loud music. These findings suggest that although the neighborhood is demographically integrated there seems to be social cleavages based on race and class.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The college campus gives students the freedom to explore friendships in a diverse age-homogeneous society of scholars, but this freedom occurs within the constraints of the university as an institution. The institution can influence interracial friendship formation using residence hall segregation and roommate assignments to maximize interracial exposure in residence halls. Proximity of interracial potential ties around campus, in residence halls, and in the dorm room influence the inter-group propinquity in the freshman student population. The residential university provides the opportunity for repeated contact in local communities and campus social areas, a necessary antecedent to friendship. This study examines the extent to which residence hall segregation affects friendship segregation on a first-year student campus. Using data from a panel study of campus life at an elite university, this study finds that interracial exposure is a key factor in interracial friendship for minority students, but white students form friendship without regard for residential segregation. Both white and minority students find interracial roommate assignments a strong source for out-group friendship. Measures of weak ties find that minority students explore other residence halls to seek out same-race potential ties.