University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School June 2020 A South Florida Ethnography of Mobile Home Park Residents Organizing Against Neoliberal Crony Capitalist Displacement Juan Guillermo Ruiz University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Scholar Commons Citation Ruiz, Juan Guillermo, "A South Florida Ethnography of Mobile Home Park Residents Organizing Against Neoliberal Crony Capitalist Displacement" (2020). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/8292 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A South Florida Ethnography of Mobile Home Park Residents Organizing Against Neoliberal Crony Capitalist Displacement by Juan Guillermo Ruiz A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Kevin A. Yelvington, D.Phil. Susan D. Greenbaum, Ph.D. Kiran C. Jayaram, Ph.D. Date of Approval: June 24, 2020 Keywords: applied anthropology, community development, manufactured housing, inequality, community organizing, Fort Lauderdale Copyright © 2020, Juan Guillermo Ruiz Acknowledgements First and foremost, I want to thank my parents who sacrificed so much for my sister and me. Migrating from Colombia to the United States was a difficult transition for them, but they worked hard and took time to teach us so much.