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2. 'Hay que seguir luchando': struggles that shaped English language learning of four Cuban immigrant women
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Butcher,John S. (Author) and Townsend,Jane S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2011
- Published:
- Abingdon UK: Routledge Journals/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 24(7) : 829-856
- Notes:
- Newly arrived from Cuba, Angelica, Dora, Marina, and Damaris attempted to negotiate new surroundings and immigrant identities, building a sense of home for themselves and their families. Data from qualitative interviews, classroom observations, and focus group conversations revealed hopes that by acquiring English language skills, they would improve their quality of life in their new country. Struggles included personal factors situated in their pasts in Cuba and their new surrounds in the Miami Cuban exile enclave, contexts that were further complicated by uncertain expectations of new lives in Miami and the overwhelming task of learning a new language at a local adult education center.
3. A Bank the Poor Can Call Their Own
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hastings,Anne (Author), Kurz,James (Author), and Felix,Katleen (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Oct 2010
- Published:
- Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Innovations (Innovations)
- Journal Title Details:
- 5(4) : 13-32
- Notes:
- Part of a special journal issue dedicated to strategies for societal renewal in Haiti., Fonkoze, "the bank the poor can call their own," is a bank that provides more than just loans. It also sees access to reasonably priced savings, remittance transfer, and currency conversion as a right of even the poorest. This article tells the story of how -- after the devastation of the 2010 earthquake -- Fonkoze found itself positioned to serve Haiti's rural population before other banks were back on their feet.
4. Aspects of Cuba's Strategy to Revive Socialist Development
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ludlam,Steve (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2012
- Published:
- New York, NY: Guilford Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Science & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 76(1) : 41-65
- Notes:
- With stark income inequalities rooted in its dual currency economy, Cuba is taxing down high and unearned incomes, while trying to raise national productivity and official salaries through performance-related pay and labor restructuring. Such measures are portrayed as an abandonment of socialism, but in Cuba are discussed in terms of historic socialist debates about distribution and the balance of moral and material incentives at work, in a society still characterized by common ownership, social protection, and collective debate.
5. Corporate social and environmental reporting in the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bowrin,Anthony R. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Bradford, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Responsibility Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(2) : 259-280
- Notes:
- Examines the extent to which publicly-listed Caribbean companies provide social and environmental disclosures, and the factors related to their disclosure practices. It is motivated by the dearth of studies of social and environmental disclosures among publicly listed Caribbean firms.
6. Displacement and Disaster Recovery: Transnational Governance and Socio-legal Issues Following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sapat,Alka (Author) and Esnard,Ann-Margaret (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- United States: Berkeley Electronic Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Risks, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 3(1)
- Notes:
- The 2010 earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath have highlighted inherent but understudied transnational governance and socio-legal complexities of disaster recovery and displacement. This paper examines the key transnational governance and socio-legal issues that have arisen in the South Florida region for four distinct groups: (i) displacees and their related legal, social, cultural, and economic issues; (ii) host communities and governance, legal, and monetary complexities associated with compensation payments (e.g., to hospitals for their services to earthquake survivors); (iii) immigrants within the United States and related legalization and citizenship issues; and (iv) diaspora communities and socio-legal issues related to dual citizenship and their ongoing struggles to have a louder voice in the future of Haiti.
7. The Education of Poverty: Rebuilding Haiti's School System After Its "Total Collapse"
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McNulty,Brendan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2011
- Published:
- Medford, MA: The Fletcher School, Tufts University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
- Journal Title Details:
- 35(1) : 109-126
- Notes:
- Discusses the imperative to establish a functioning education system and explores how the earthquake exacerbated perennial challenges to the Haitian education system, while also perhaps offering some hope. Analyzes reconstruction efforts involving the Government of Haiti and such organizations as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, arguing that an education system premised on local ownership and focused on sustainability is Haiti's best hope.