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Legal Aid Amid Bureaucracy, Amanda Reinke, Nicole Bevilacqua
Legal Aid Amid Bureaucracy, Amanda Reinke, Nicole Bevilacqua
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Disaster lawyers navigate bureaucratic impediments to insuranceclaims and settlement and federal recovery and relief, and they actas third-party facilitators for disaster-affected clients to help enable theirsurvival efforts. The roles of such lawyers in navigating paperwork andbureaucratic processes on behalf of survivors, while assisting them inmeeting basic daily needs, has become seen as being integral to recoveryin these processes. We utilise findings from semi-structured interviewswith disaster law practitioners working with disaster survivors in thesouth-eastern United States (SEUS) to examine the bureaucratic socio-legallife of disasters. We marshal bureaucratic violence literature to analysedisaster law practitioners’ perspectives of the socio-legal nature ofdisasters in the …
Navigating The 'Bureaucratic Beast' In North Carolina Hurricane Recovery, Amanda Reinke
Navigating The 'Bureaucratic Beast' In North Carolina Hurricane Recovery, Amanda Reinke
Faculty and Research Publications
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