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2. 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.
3. Intersectional Sensibilities in Analysing Inequality Regimes in Public Sector Organizations
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Healy,Geraldine (Author), Bradley,Harriet (Author), and Forson,Cynthia (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-09
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Gender, Work & Organization
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(5) : 467-487
- Notes:
- Explores the experiences of Bangladeshi, Caribbean and Pakistani women working in three parts of the public sector: health, local government and higher education. Drawing on interviews with managers and with women employees, the study demonstrates the complexity and unevenness in the way inequality regimes are produced, reproduced and rationalized.
4. Local Governance Structures in Trinidad and Tobago: Muddling Through
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Marie Bissessar,Ann (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Dec 2010
- Published:
- Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social and Economic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 59(4) : 127-144
- Notes:
- Argues that the current proposal to reform the local government sector in Trinidad and Tobago stems from an eclectic application of various strands of thought that are in no way in keeping with the realities of the social and political environment of the country.
5. The Value of Information and Communication Technologies in Humanitarian Relief Efforts
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Summer,Mark (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) : 55-68
- Notes:
- Part of a special journal issue dedicated to strategies for societal renewal in Haiti., Provides an account of the efforts by a humanitarian organization's efforts ot reestablish connectivity for other humanitarian organizations working in Haiti after the recent devastating earthquake. It outlines its plans for continued efforts to bring better infrastructure to the rest of the country, accelerate disaster preparedness efforts, improve the quality of education and health-care training and delivery, enable business development, and improve accountability and transparency for local government and organization.
6. Turf Wars: Local Context and Latino Political Development
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bishin,Benjamin G. (Author), Kaufmann,Karen M. (Author), and Stevens,Daniel (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2012
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Sage Publications Ltd.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Urban Affairs Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 48(1) : 111-137
- Notes:
- Examines the voting behavior of Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics in two Florida counties. The group position thesis holds that status inequalities and perceived discrimination yield out-group hostilities that can influence political behavior. In Miami, where Cubans are dominant, we expect non-Cuban Latinos to report greater pan-Latino competition and that anti-Cuban attitudes will influence non-Cuban Hispanic voting. In Tampa, where non-Cuban Latinos live in communities where Cubans are not dominant, we expect lower levels of perceived competition and Cuban-related attitudes to be inconsequential to the vote. The results confirm that power relations in the local arena constitute an important influence on the political behavior of Latino immigrants.