D W Haines
Biographic Data
| ID | 10394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D W Haines |
| GIVEN NAMES | D W |
| FAMILY NAME | Haines |
| SIGNATURE | HAINES D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9207-6349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Deny, Debate, Delay: The US Decision to Admit Displaced Persons After the Second World War
The US resettlement of displaced persons ( DP s) after the Second World War was a watershed event in American immigration history. For the first time since the restrictions of 1921 and 1924, immigration numbers increased and the existing American ethnic fabric was changed. However, the decision to resettle the DP s was sorely contested. The forces supporting DP s might provide documentation and rationale for DP admissions, but the lack of public …
From politics to poetics of migration: Migrant workers’ ‘life-in-migration’ during the Covid pandemic
Many scholars have talked about learning from the sporadicity of the human world and the unpredictability of human life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet few have provided fully satisfactory answers for exactly what lessons we have learned or should have learned. This paper revisits the plight of migrant workers during the pandemic, focusing on foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. Such low-wage workers are usually perceived as under the blanket…
Refugees as Labor: Post World War II Displaced Persons in Australia, Canada, and the USA
The resettlement of approximately one million European displaced persons (DPs) after the Second World War was a major milestone in humanitarian resettlement. It was also a major milestone in the expansion of immigration in Australia, Canada, and the USA. The humanitarian and immigration expansion aspects of DP resettlement were the result of formal government policy as well as humanitarian organizations, interest groups concerned about the need f…
Making a National Program National: The US Resettlement of Displaced Persons After World War II
The end of the Second World War in Europe left millions of people out of place, including Jews left in concentration camps, forced laborers in the huge Nazi work camp system, and many Germans as well. For roughly a million of these people, no immediate return to their home countries was possible, and the United States—although very slowly—ultimately resettled the largest number of them. One important thread in these US efforts was the intent to m…
Christian Citizens in a Democratic State: Is a True Separation of Church and State Really Possible
In many North American Protestant circles, especially those with Baptist or Free Church roots, the notion of the total separation of church and state is presented as the ideal to be attained in all church and state relations. We are told that the state should have no legislative power to ordain anything in relation to church doctrine or practice, and that the church should be entirely excluded from all political, secular, or state actions. In thi…
Diseasescape and immobility governance: Covid-19 and its aftermaths
COVID-19 upended both the existing world order and the research agenda of academics. In both cases, one crucial feature was a net shift from an expansive ‘hyper mobile’ world to a strong emphasis on the immobilization of people. With growing anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility, there was a turn in mobility studies: an ‘immobility turn’ agonized by a rapidly evolving diseasescape shaped at the intersection of a rapidly…
Truth and Responsibility: Understanding Christian Pastors and Priests
This special issue focuses on the roles and lived experience of pastors and priests, with an emphasis on North America and Europe. This introduction to the special issue includes: (1) the rationale for focusing on pastors and priests as a way to further the anthropological understanding of Christianity as it is lived by the agents at the core of its culturally generative forces, (2) a short review of the burgeoning literature both within and outs…
The Perils of Being a Pastor: Then and Now
As early Christian writings emphasise, pastors are crucial to maintaining Christian communities and in serious practical and spiritual jeopardy if they fail to do so. They are held to unachievable standards of personal morality and religious practice. So why would anyone choose such a vocation and how could they survive it? The answers to those questions provide a useful way to investigate the widely acknowledged gap in anthropology's study of Ch…
Policy, Anthropology and
Anthropology has long been interwoven with policy. At the most general level, the entire discipline may be construed as a framework for policy, particularly because of its broad embrace of all peoples and of all disciplines, bridging the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Anthropologists have long been involved in particular policy issues that impinge on areas of anthropological interest, especially when those areas are subject to policy …
Notes from the Section Leadership
"Introduction to "Maintaining Refuge
Reflections on Minneapolis from the Section Leadership
Notes from the Section Leadership: Asap sessions at the Iuaes in Dubrovnik (May 2016)
Migration, Policy, and Anthropology
In reviewing the articles in this special issue on the migration/policy/anthropology nexus, my comments will be in three parts: first, presenting a rough framework by which we might look at public policy in a way that bridges the academic and the practical; second, considering the actual cases presented in this special issue; and third, considering more broadly what the anthropological contribution might be to this complex and often acrimonious i…
Safe Haven: A History of Refugees in America
In his masterful study of the relationship between refugees and the United States, covering seven decades of immigration history, David Haines shows how both the refugees and their new communities have struggled with national and ethnic identities, and also the effect that this struggle has had on US institutions and attitudes
Perfectly American: Constructing the Refugee Experience
Over the last 60 years, the United States has accepted some two million refugees for resettlement. Standard opinion polls suggest that the American response to these refugees has been mixed. Yet, despite much ambivalence about particular refugees and where they may belong in the grid of American social and cultural categories, the notion of refuge and the imperative toward support and welcome to refugees endure. As an extended example, this paper…
Anthropology and Immigration in the Classroom
Ethnicity's Shadows: Race, Religion, and Nationality as Alternative Identities among Recent United States Arrivals
In recent decades, ethnicity has received increasing academic attention—and popular acceptance—as a core aspect of identity and one that is particularly relevant to immigrants. But is this notion of ethnicity salient to the immigrants themselves? This article provides a set of quantitative snapshots of the way new arrivals to the United States identify themselves and their children. The data—a set of annual surveys of recent refugee arrivals—sugg…
Crossing lines of difference’: How college students analyse diversity
Contemporary American college students confront increased diversity during their college years—in race, class, nationality, religion, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, age, and disability. Yet, how do students conceptualize this diversity, evaluate the options it provides, and assess its limitations? Furthermore, how do those researching diversity develop approaches that are flexible and open enough to reflect emerging student ways of thin…
Transnational Migration in East Asia: Japan in Comparative Focus
This special two-day conference on migration, held May 31-June 1, 2007, at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka, was one of the first and most comprehensive meetings of scholars on the full dimensions and implications of migration both to and from Japan. It was also a valuable opportunity to reconsider international migration from an East Asian vantage point ? and especially convenient for non-Japanese since the papers were wri…
Transnational Migration
Labor, Migration, and Anthropology: Reflections from the Work of Philip L. Martin
Introduction: Labor Migration in the 21st Century
Fatal Choices The Routinization of Deceit, Incompetence, and Corruption
The work of government requires high standards of rationality and commitment. These are threatened by large-scale, often well-publicized practical mistakes and ethical failings. Rationality and commitment are also at risk in the more mundane everyday life of public sector organizations when minor human failings are incorporated into the ongoing routines of organizational practice. Case material from federal and state agencies suggests that as min…
Better Tools, Better Workers: Toward a Lateral Alignment of Technology, Policy, Labor, and Management
This article examines one government agency’s experience with a new kind of technology— computerization—andhow that fostered a newoperational rationality that, in turn, permitted significant improvements in the agency’s work. Those improvements were enabled by computerization itself and by a new lateral alignment of technology, policy, labor, and management. That kind of lateral alignment— although often contested—has important implications for p…
Family and Community among Vietnamese Refugees
David Haines, Dorothy Rutherford, Patrick Thomas, Family and Community among Vietnamese Refugees, The International Migration Review, Vol. 15, No. 1/2, Refugees Today (Spring - Summer, 1981), pp. 310-319
Family and Community among Vietnamese Refugees
This article focuses on the maintenance, extent and structure of family and community ties among Vietnamese refugees in the United States. The findings from a series of field efforts in northern Virginia indicate the continuing and pervasive importance of both family and community. The family, in particular, extends well beyond the boundaries of the household, and is capable of furnishing significant amounts of emotional and practical support
Transnational Migration in East Asia: Japan in Comparative Focus
This special two-day conference on migration, held May 31-June 1, 2007, at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka, was one of the first and most comprehensive meetings of scholars on the full dimensions and implications of migration both to and from Japan. It was also a valuable opportunity to reconsider international migration from an East Asian vantage point ? and especially convenient for non-Japanese since the papers were wri…
Perfectly American: Constructing the Refugee Experience
Over the last 60 years, the United States has accepted some two million refugees for resettlement. Standard opinion polls suggest that the American response to these refugees has been mixed. Yet, despite much ambivalence about particular refugees and where they may belong in the grid of American social and cultural categories, the notion of refuge and the imperative toward support and welcome to refugees endure. As an extended example, this paper…
Reflections of Kinship and Society under Vietnam's Lê Dynasty
The understanding of Vietnamese society and social relations remains problematic. Even for recent times there is a dearth of research on basic facets of Vietnamese social structure. Scholars remain all too indebted to Hickey's study of Khanh Hau, which, dealing with a single and in some ways unique Southern village, can hardly be taken as representative given the wide regional and class differences characteristic of Vietnamese society. Moving bac…
Migration, Policy, and Anthropology
In reviewing the articles in this special issue on the migration/policy/anthropology nexus, my comments will be in three parts: first, presenting a rough framework by which we might look at public policy in a way that bridges the academic and the practical; second, considering the actual cases presented in this special issue; and third, considering more broadly what the anthropological contribution might be to this complex and often acrimonious i…
Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States: The Interaction of Kinship and Public Policy
Better Tools, Better Workers: Toward a Lateral Alignment of Technology, Policy, Labor, and Management
This article examines one government agency’s experience with a new kind of technology— computerization—andhow that fostered a newoperational rationality that, in turn, permitted significant improvements in the agency’s work. Those improvements were enabled by computerization itself and by a new lateral alignment of technology, policy, labor, and management. That kind of lateral alignment— although often contested—has important implications for p…
Binding the Generations: Household Formation Patterns among Vietnamese Refugees
Much of the analysis of refugee and immigrant adaptation has stressed the interaction of prior experience with the requirements of life in a new country. For refugees, that interaction has often been jarring because of the after-effects of their flight and their relative inability to prepare for a new life in a new country. Yet refugees have often done rather well in economic terms in that new country. The reasons for that relative success have b…
Conformity in the face of ambiguity: A bureaucratic dilemma
The Pursuit of English and Self— sufficiency: Dilemmas in Assessing Refugee Programme Effects
Crossing lines of difference’: How college students analyse diversity
Contemporary American college students confront increased diversity during their college years—in race, class, nationality, religion, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, age, and disability. Yet, how do students conceptualize this diversity, evaluate the options it provides, and assess its limitations? Furthermore, how do those researching diversity develop approaches that are flexible and open enough to reflect emerging student ways of thin…
Labor, Migration, and Anthropology: Reflections from the Work of Philip L. Martin
Minimalism in Governance: Workers’ Compensation in a Southern State
An examination of workers’ compensation in a Southern state suggests a distinctive minimalist approach to governance that imbues both the overall structure of the program and the administration of that program’s components. This article examines this minimalist stance in general and then considers in more detail three separate components of the overall program: the determination of employer suitability for self-insurance, the determination of the…
The Case for Exploratory Fieldwork: Understanding the Adjustment of Vietnamese Refugees in the Washington Area
David Haines, Dorothy Rutherford, Patrick Thomas, The Case for Exploratory Fieldwork: Understanding the Adjustment of Vietnamese Refugees in the Washington Area, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 2, Metropolitan Ethnography in the Nation's Capital (Apr., 1981), pp. 94-102
Making a National Program National: The US Resettlement of Displaced Persons After World War II
The end of the Second World War in Europe left millions of people out of place, including Jews left in concentration camps, forced laborers in the huge Nazi work camp system, and many Germans as well. For roughly a million of these people, no immediate return to their home countries was possible, and the United States—although very slowly—ultimately resettled the largest number of them. One important thread in these US efforts was the intent to m…
Diseasescape and immobility governance: Covid-19 and its aftermaths
COVID-19 upended both the existing world order and the research agenda of academics. In both cases, one crucial feature was a net shift from an expansive ‘hyper mobile’ world to a strong emphasis on the immobilization of people. With growing anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility, there was a turn in mobility studies: an ‘immobility turn’ agonized by a rapidly evolving diseasescape shaped at the intersection of a rapidly…
Fatal Choices The Routinization of Deceit, Incompetence, and Corruption
The work of government requires high standards of rationality and commitment. These are threatened by large-scale, often well-publicized practical mistakes and ethical failings. Rationality and commitment are also at risk in the more mundane everyday life of public sector organizations when minor human failings are incorporated into the ongoing routines of organizational practice. Case material from federal and state agencies suggests that as min…
Family and Community among Vietnamese Refugees
David Haines, Dorothy Rutherford, Patrick Thomas, Family and Community among Vietnamese Refugees, The International Migration Review, Vol. 15, No. 1/2, Refugees Today (Spring - Summer, 1981), pp. 310-319
Family and Community among Vietnamese Refugees
This article focuses on the maintenance, extent and structure of family and community ties among Vietnamese refugees in the United States. The findings from a series of field efforts in northern Virginia indicate the continuing and pervasive importance of both family and community. The family, in particular, extends well beyond the boundaries of the household, and is capable of furnishing significant amounts of emotional and practical support
The Case for Exploratory Fieldwork: Understanding the Adjustment of Vietnamese Refugees in the Washington Area
David Haines, Dorothy Rutherford, Patrick Thomas, The Case for Exploratory Fieldwork: Understanding the Adjustment of Vietnamese Refugees in the Washington Area, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 2, Metropolitan Ethnography in the Nation's Capital (Apr., 1981), pp. 94-102
The New Ethnics: Asian Indians in the United States
Southeast Asian Refugees in the United States: The Interaction of Kinship and Public Policy
Exodus Indochina
Reflections of Kinship and Society under Vietnam's Lê Dynasty
The understanding of Vietnamese society and social relations remains problematic. Even for recent times there is a dearth of research on basic facets of Vietnamese social structure. Scholars remain all too indebted to Hickey's study of Khanh Hau, which, dealing with a single and in some ways unique Southern village, can hardly be taken as representative given the wide regional and class differences characteristic of Vietnamese society. Moving bac…
Refugees in the United States: A Reference Handbook
Well researched and clearly written, for the student and also for the citizen who seeks heightened awareness of refugee issues. Reference Books Bulletin
Kinship in Vietnamese Refugee Resettlement: A Review of the U.S. Experience
Over the period from 1975 to 1985, approximately one half million refugees from Vietnam were resettled in the United States. Their experience has generated a large and eclectic body of research. This article reviews one aspect of that research: the ways in which kinship changes and continues across the exodus experience, and the way it affects refugee adaptation to the United States. Specifically, the paper describes: (1) the structure of Vietnam…
The Pursuit of English and Self— sufficiency: Dilemmas in Assessing Refugee Programme Effects
Ritual or ritual? Dinnertime and Christmas among some ordinary American families
The Strongest Part of the Family: A Study of Lao Refugee Women in Columbus, Ohio
This reproduction was made from a copy of a docum ent sent to us for microfilming.While the most advanced technology has been used to photograph and reproduce this docum ent, the quality o f the reproduction is heavily dependent upon the quality o f the material submitted.The following explanation of techniques is provided to help clarify markings or notations which may appear on this reproduction.1.The sign or " target" for pages apparently lack…
Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in the United States and Canada
Refugees as Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese in America
Conformity in the face of ambiguity: A bureaucratic dilemma
Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives
Refugees in America in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook
This volume introduces the reader to an important set of newcomers to America. Two overview chapters introduce the U.S. refugee program and the general patterns in resettlement and adaptation. The chapters cover the origins of the program, its development through successive waves of refugees and layers of legislation, the life experiences that refugees bring with them, the problems they must confront, and the ways they rebuild their lives. The he…
Refugees in America in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook
Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America
Illegal Immigration in America: A Reference Handbook
Few issues have provoked as much controversy over the last decade as illegal immigration. While some argue for the need to seal America's borders and withdraw all forms of social and governmental support for illegal migrants and their children, others argue for humanitarian treatment—including legalization—for people who fill widely acknowledged needs in American industry and agriculture and have left home-country situations of economic hardship …
Minimalism in Governance: Workers’ Compensation in a Southern State
An examination of workers’ compensation in a Southern state suggests a distinctive minimalist approach to governance that imbues both the overall structure of the program and the administration of that program’s components. This article examines this minimalist stance in general and then considers in more detail three separate components of the overall program: the determination of employer suitability for self-insurance, the determination of the…
Binding the Generations: Household Formation Patterns among Vietnamese Refugees
Much of the analysis of refugee and immigrant adaptation has stressed the interaction of prior experience with the requirements of life in a new country. For refugees, that interaction has often been jarring because of the after-effects of their flight and their relative inability to prepare for a new life in a new country. Yet refugees have often done rather well in economic terms in that new country. The reasons for that relative success have b…
Better Tools, Better Workers: Toward a Lateral Alignment of Technology, Policy, Labor, and Management
This article examines one government agency’s experience with a new kind of technology— computerization—andhow that fostered a newoperational rationality that, in turn, permitted significant improvements in the agency’s work. Those improvements were enabled by computerization itself and by a new lateral alignment of technology, policy, labor, and management. That kind of lateral alignment— although often contested—has important implications for p…
Fatal Choices The Routinization of Deceit, Incompetence, and Corruption
The work of government requires high standards of rationality and commitment. These are threatened by large-scale, often well-publicized practical mistakes and ethical failings. Rationality and commitment are also at risk in the more mundane everyday life of public sector organizations when minor human failings are incorporated into the ongoing routines of organizational practice. Case material from federal and state agencies suggests that as min…
Ethnicity's Shadows: Race, Religion, and Nationality as Alternative Identities among Recent United States Arrivals
In recent decades, ethnicity has received increasing academic attention—and popular acceptance—as a core aspect of identity and one that is particularly relevant to immigrants. But is this notion of ethnicity salient to the immigrants themselves? This article provides a set of quantitative snapshots of the way new arrivals to the United States identify themselves and their children. The data—a set of annual surveys of recent refugee arrivals—sugg…
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