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Growing Community: Factors of Inclusion for Refugee and Immigrant Urban Gardeners

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  • Lissy Goralnik

    (Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA)

  • Lucero Radonic

    (Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA)

  • Vanessa Garcia Polanco

    (National Young Farmers Coalition, Washington, DC 20002, USA)

  • Angel Hammon

    (Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA)

Abstract

Urban agriculture is an important neighborhood revitalization strategy in the U.S. Rust Belt, where deindustrialization has left blighted and vacant land in the urban core. Immigrants and refugees represent a growing and important stakeholder group in urban agriculture, including in community gardens across the Rust Belt Midwest. Community gardens provide a host of social and economic benefits to urban landscapes, including increased access to culturally appropriate food and medicinal plants for refugee and immigrant growers. Our work in Lansing, Michigan was part of a collaboration with the Greater Lansing Food Bank’s Garden Project (GLFGP) to describe the refugee and immigrant community gardening experience in three urban gardens with high refugee and immigrant enrollment. Our research describes the ways garden management facilitates inclusion for refugee and immigrant gardeners and how particular factors of inclusion in turn contribute to social capital, an important outcome that plays a critical role in refugee and immigrant subjective wellbeing.

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  • Lissy Goralnik & Lucero Radonic & Vanessa Garcia Polanco & Angel Hammon, 2022. "Growing Community: Factors of Inclusion for Refugee and Immigrant Urban Gardeners," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-20, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:12:y:2022:i:1:p:68-:d:1015391
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