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Review Of Immigration And Integration In Urban Communities: Renegotiating The City, Ed. Lisa Hanley, Blair Ruble, And Allison Garland, Clara Irazabal
Review Of Immigration And Integration In Urban Communities: Renegotiating The City, Ed. Lisa Hanley, Blair Ruble, And Allison Garland, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
This book challenges the prevailing, counterpoising paradigms of immigration studies and integration strategies -- multiculturalism and assimilationism -- by noting that host communities are not as static and migrants are constantly evolving, reacting and adapting to each other.
The Scheherazade Syndrome: Fiction And Fact In Dubai’S Quest To Become A Global City, Clara Irazabal, Alamira Hashim, Greta Byrum
The Scheherazade Syndrome: Fiction And Fact In Dubai’S Quest To Become A Global City, Clara Irazabal, Alamira Hashim, Greta Byrum
Clara Irazabal
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Promised Land? Immigration, Religiosity, And Space In Southern California, Clara Irazabal, Grace Dyrness
Promised Land? Immigration, Religiosity, And Space In Southern California, Clara Irazabal, Grace Dyrness
Clara Irazabal
This article looks at how immigrants and their supporters appropriate and use religious space and other public spaces for religious and socio-political purposes in Southern California. While the everyday living conditions of many immigrants, particularly the unauthorized Latino immigrants, force unto them an embodied disciplinarity that maintains spatialities of restricted citizenship, the public appropriations of space for and through religious practices allow for them –even if only momentarily –to express an embodied transgression. This practice in public space helps realize spaces of freedom and hope, however ephemerally. Potentially, these rehearsing exercises can help revert internalized disempowering subjectivities and create social …
Reflections On The Venezuelan Transition From A Capitalist Representative To A Socialist Participatory Democracy: What Are Planners To Do?, Clara Irazabal
Reflections On The Venezuelan Transition From A Capitalist Representative To A Socialist Participatory Democracy: What Are Planners To Do?, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
Venezuela is experiencing a transitional political process in which the government and the majority of Venezuelans want to move from a capitalist representative democracy to a more socialist participatory democracy. This transition is enmeshed in complexities, contradictions, and political opposition. Reflection on the experience of accompanying neighborhood groups in local decision making in Caracas from 2002 to 2006 suggests that planning practitioners and scholars can be allies in the grassroots processes of empowerment and self-determination of local communities and advocates and active agents in the "trickling-up" of greater planning participation to upper levels of government.