The Fugees Case Study

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Mayor Lee Swaney and his supporters obstruct the Fugees and the refugee population of Clarkston as a whole, in order to protect their antiquated ideal of what small town America should be. The Fugees ' difficulties in finding a practice pitch could rarely be traced to a scheduling conflict or other hard logistical issue; instead, they were contrived by the authorities in an attempt the limit the refugees ' impact on their town. In the early days of the Fugees, Luma had little trouble arranging to rent the Clarkston Community Center field with funding from the YMCA (52), and their use of the facility for practice appeared to be going smoothly for a time. The Fugees and other refugee outreach programs provided great publicity for the