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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 …
Retos Urbano Ambientales: Disturbio Climático En América Latina Y El Caribe, Clara Irazabal
Retos Urbano Ambientales: Disturbio Climático En América Latina Y El Caribe, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
Las proyecciones hacia el futuro determinan que podría haber un aumento de hasta 1,7°C de temperatura para el 2050 y hasta 4°C para el final de este siglo, lo que sería catastrófico para la sostenabilidad de vida en el planeta, tal y como la conocemos hoy, Los niveles de aumento del nivel del mar han alcanzado 2 a 3 mm/año desde 1980 en la región. Han sido observados también cambios en los patrones de precipitaciones, con algunas áreas recibiendo más lluvias-sur de Brasil. Paraguay, Uruguay, nordeste de Argentina y noroeste de Perú-y otras con un menor nivel-sur de Chile, suroeste …