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Vulnerable, Yet Resilient: The Impact Of Covid-19 On Latino-Owned Businesses In South Omaha, Cristián Doña-Reveco, Marissa Cuellar

Latino/Latin American Studies Reports

The effects of COVID-19 have been felt broadly, across Omaha’s Latino community. Latino-owned businesses are a group of particular relevance due to the importance that local business, economic development, employment, and wealth creation have on the community as a whole. Using survey data collected between September 2021 and January 2022 among Latino business owners in South Omaha, the current study seeks to provide an exploratory and descriptive analysis of the impact of the pandemic on this group. The survey was applied to a non-random convenience sampling of 121 Latino business owners. Thus, there is no intention for this survey to …

Memories Of Exile And Temporary Return: Chilean Exiles Remember Chile, Cristián Doña-Reveco

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

The exile after the military coup of 1973 has been the largest emigration flow in Chilean history. Using oral histories of Chilean exiles collected in the Midwest of the United States as evidence, I describe and analyze their memories of Chile during President Allende’s government and compare them with their memories of recent visits to Chile. I argue that in order to begin recuperating the memory of exile we need to understand the complex relations between the process of exile, the memories of the country of origin, and the nation-state. I conclude this article by proposing that memory not only …

The Paradoxes Of Informalizing Street Trade In The Latin American City, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to challenge the default portrayal of street trade as an informal occupation and spatial practice, by examining comparatively the changes in the regulatory frameworks of two politically distinct city administrations in Latin America since the introduction of the informal economy debate.

Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws from a comparative case study design to synthesize evidence from historical administrative records, secondary research and materials from a two-year fieldwork carried out in Lima and Bogotá in 2008 and 2009.

Findings – The author argues that the incorporation of the informal economy framework into local …

Reporting On Art In The City: Newspaper Coverage Of Public Art In Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, And Chicago, 2001 – 2010, Cristián Doña-Reveco, Toby A. Ten Eyck

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

Local journalism is expected to record significant events, people, and ideas tied to the location where the journalism is practiced. Public art commemorates some of these significant events, people, and ideas, some of which encapsulate the style of the city, and all of which can become issues that gain media attention. We investigate a decade (2001–2010) of newspaper reporting and policies related to public art in four cities that are considered cultural destinations in the United States—Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Chicago—to understand how this issue is used to define and describe each of these cities and styles within …

Guatemala: Modernización, Mujer Y Salud Pública A Mediados Del Siglo Xx. Una Lectura De Azul Y Roca De Walda Valenti Y Evangelina Va Al Vampo Y Emilia De Teresa Arévalo, Claudia García

Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty Publications

Ana María Rodas (1937), Isabel Garma (1940-98), Carmen Matute (1944), Aída Toledo (1952), Mildred Hernández (1966) y Jessica Masaya (1972) son algunas de las autoras guatemaltecas que empezaron a publicar narrativa en la última década del siglo pasado, disputando espacios en un campo literario hegemonízado por la produccíón masculina, al que las mujeres solían acceder más fácilmente por medio de la poesia que del cuento.

Del Mediterráneo A Santiago, Pasando Por París Y Otras Partes: Un Comentario Sobre Refugio Y Migración Internacional, Cristián Doña-Reveco

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

A principios de septiembre de este año una imagen recorrió el mundo. La imagen mostraba a Aylan Kurdi, un niño sirio de origen kurdo muerto a las orillas del Mediterráneo en Turquía. Esta imagen significó un incremento en la (momentánea) preocupación mundial por refugiados sirios, en mayores donaciones a distintos grupos que trabajan con refugiados y sobre todo un incremento en la cobertura periodística sobre este mismo tema. Poco más de dos meses después de la muerte de Aylan, y cuando el punto más alto de interés de la prensa mundial por los refugiados comenzaba a decaer, los ataques terroristas …

I Learned More From Them Than They Did From Me: Shifting From Deficit To Asset-Based Perspectives In Service-Learning, Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo

Scholarship of Metropolitan Mission

Research is presented on a Conceptual Model for Cultural Engagement (CMCE) service-learning course for inservice teachers. The teachers worked with tweens from a non-profit youth organization to showcase their Latino community. Research data reveals that the course did implement the CMCE, emphasizing asset-based perspectives of the youth and their communities.

Latino Businesses In Nebraska: A Preliminary Look, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

A report released by the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) shows that while the number of Latino-owned businesses in Nebraska are growing, they are also the least likely to survive or expand.

According to the report, which utilizes data from the public use microdata sample compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2007, while the 3,063 Latino-owned businesses make up just 1.9 percent of businesses in Nebraska, those same businesses have come to represent the largest share of minority-owned firms in the state at 53 percent, which is nearly double the number that …

Un Retrato Demográfico De La Población De Origen Mexicano En Nebraska, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

El Crecimiento de la Población de Origen Mexicano desde 1900: Tradicionalmente la población de origen mexicano en los Estados Unidos se concentraba en el Suroeste del país, un territorio originalmente mexicano que fue anexado a los Estados Unidos en 18483. Aproximadamente 100,000 hispanohablantes vivían en este territorio antes de la creación de los estados de California, Texas, Arizona, Nuevo México, y Colorado (Grajeda 1998). Una gran proporción de la población de origen mexicano aún reside en estos estados, pero alrededor de 1990 se ha dispersado más notoriamente a otros nuevos destinos como Nebraska. Aunque antes de esa década no fue …

Three Things To Remember About Latinos In Nebraska, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

While the latest immigrant wave in Nebraska have an important number of Latinos, it is not the largest wave of immigration experienced in the state.

Contrary to popular belief, most Latinos in Nebraska are U.S. citizens and have a long history in the state.

Latinos will increasingly shape the future of Nebraska.

Pulling Open The Sticky Door: Social Mobility Among Latinos In Nebraska, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

No abstract provided.

Migration Policy And Development In Chile, Cristián Doña-Reveco, Brendan Mullan

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

Current and prospective migration law and policy in Chile does not adequately incorporate the causes, content, and consequences of international migration to and from Chile. We describe and examine migration in‐flows, out‐flows, migration‐related policies, and how those policies drive, and are driven by, notions of development in Chile. We explore contradictions in Chilean nascent migration policy currently under legislative review. We argue that it is imperative that migration, migration policy, and their relationship to development be discussed inclusively and transparently and be explicitly incorporated into the Chilean government's nascent migration and development legal policies and frameworks.

Latino Businesses In Nebraska: A Preliminary Look, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

Data for this report comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners Public Use Microdata Sample (SBO PUMS) as well as published tables based on the full survey. The most recent release of the Survey of Business Owners is based on data collected in 2007. The data only allows for an imperfect portrayal of the current conditions of Latino businesses in the state. However, the analyses of such data, as presented in this report, constitute an important baseline from which to continue to monitor the growth and conditions of these businesses. The next SBO-PUMS will be released in …

Quick Facts About South Omaha, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

With 67,310 residents in 2012, South Omaha represents 9% of the Metropolitan Omaha-Council Bluffs’ population. This area of town is characterized by its young population. One third of its residents are 17 years or younger. The highest share of its population is composed by people in their twenties or early thirties.

Negocios Latinos En Nebraska: Una Visión Preliminar - Resumen Ejecutivo, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

Este reporte busca resaltar las contribuciones de los negocios latinos en el estado de Nebraska. Basado en el análisis de la Muestra de Microdatos para Uso Público de la Encuesta de Empresarios (SBO PUMS) del 2007 de la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos publicado en el 20121, este documento presenta un perfil actualizado de las características socio-demográficas de los dueños de negocios latinos en Nebraska. También examina la evolución de establecimientos latinos a través de un análisis del Sistema de Información para el Seguimiento de Negocios (BITS) 2002-2006 y otras tabulaciones especiales de la Oficina del Censo de …

Latinos And The Future Of Nebraska, Lissette Aliaga-Linares

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

No abstract provided.

Criollismo Femenino Y Mestizaje En Mah Rap De Malín D’Echevers, Claudia García

Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty Publications

Este ensayo propone una lectura de Mah Rap (1946) de la guatemalteca Malín D’Echevers, que articula l novela con la teosofía, el regeneracionismo y el feminismo moderado de la época, mostrando cómo la autora constituye una versión femenina del criollismo. A partir del cruce de este género con elementos de la novela sentimental y la hist6rica, y recurriendo a elementos autobiograficos que determinan una cercanía personal o familiar con el material histórico así como una simpatía interior con el mundo indígena plasmados en la novela, D’Echevers se desvía de los tópicos del criollismo masculino e inscribe la progresiva incursión femenina …

The Chilean State And The Search For A New Migration Policy, Cristián Doña-Reveco, Amanda Levinson

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

Considerar a Chile como un país receptor de inmigrantes es algo definitivamente nuevo. De hecho la migración neta en Chile aún es negativa. Durante los últimos veinte años, sin embargo, se ha observado un cambio en los flujos migratorios al país. Esto ha sido resultado del proceso de democratización luego del fin de la dictadura de Pinochet, un progreso económico continuado durante este período, y a la percepción de un país social y políticamente tranquilo en comparación con sus vecinos. Entre los años 1992 y 2012 el stock migratorio en Chile aumento desde 114 mil personas a unas 352 mil; …

The Unintended Consequences Of Exile: The Brazilian And Chilean Cases In Comparative Perspective, 1964 – 1990, Cristián Doña-Reveco

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

The right to asylum is a central theme in South American political identity. What originated as a way of protecting political leaders in the period of anarchy that followed the independence of these nations became, in the 1940s, a cornerstone of the inter-American political and legal systems. For the first century and a half of national independence in South American countries, the right to asylum was an elite status that guaranteed protection to political leaders deposed by political unrest or fearful of political retribution. These political elites usually sought asylum in neighboring countries: far enough from home for safety, but …

Cross-Contextual Examination Of Current Latino Issues: International/Intranational Research And Pedagogy, Jonathan Bruce Santo, Juan F. Casas

Psychology Faculty Publications

This special issue contains articles that examine Latino individual and community level issues in various locations around the world. The articles bridge research and theory across disciplines and include studies incorporating a variety of methodologies to examine these important areas. These articles begin to fill some of the voids where a systematic and robust corpus of knowledge is lacking. The contributions address topics ranging from issues of undergraduate coursework, literature, transnational relationships and socioeconomic examinations. Finally, each contribution provides a context in how these important transnational adaptations may play out among individuals of other races and ethnicities.

Recent Issues In Latino Labor And Migration Around The Globe: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Juan F. Casas, Jonathan Bruce Santo

Psychology Faculty Publications

This special issue contains articles that examine Latino labor and migration issues in various locations around the world. The articles bridge research and theory across disciplines and include studies incorporating a variety of methodologies to examine these important areas. These articles begin to fill some of the voids where a systematic and robust corpus of knowledge is lacking. The contributions address topics ranging from issues of worker perceptions of organizational justice to contexts of reception to pedagogical representation of migration. Finally, each contribution delineates the policy implications resulting from the processes and literatures that are examined.

Parent Involvement And Views Of School Success: The Role Of Parents’ Latino And White American Cultural Orientations, Carey S. Ryan, Juan F. Casas, Lisa Kelly-Vance, Bridget O. Ryalls, Collette Nero

Psychology Faculty Publications

We examined ethnicity and cultural orientation as predictors of parents' views of and involvement in children's education, using data gathered from the Latino (n = 74) and non-Latino (17 White and 13 ethnic minority) parents of children in an elementary school's dual-language program. Parents completed a questionnaire that assessed Latino and White American cultural orientations, importance of children's academic and social success, and self- and significant other involvement in children's education. Results indicated that Latino (and other ethnic minority) parents valued academic and social success equally and more strongly than did Whites and that Whites valued social success more …

Visions From Finis Terræ: Chilean Voices In The United States. Pablo Arriarán, Ed, Cristián Doña-Reveco

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

Arriarán’s book is comprised of speeches, talks, fragments of journal articles, scholarly presentations and one short story written by Chilean politicians and academics for audiences in the United States. The main objective of this book is to introduce Chile to the broader U.S. public. The objective, however, is not to present Chile’s geography or landscapes or culture, but to establish Chile as a country that thinks globally and that participates interdependently in the world. The Chile that is presented here by the different ‘voices’ is the country of global policies and politics--a country that is in constant conversation with its …

Conducting Research In The Latino Community, Miguel A. Carranza, Lourdes Gouveia, Ed Munoz

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

The panelists discuss topics relevant not only to gaining entry into Latino communities but also understanding the dynamics of change that exist both among Latinos and between Latinos and the rest of the population

Global Forces And Latino Population Growth In The Midwest: A Regional And Subregional Analysis, Lourdes Gouveia, Rogelio Saenz

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

The last decade has seen a significant growth of the Latino population in the Midwest, particularly in rural communities. We discuss the forces that have stimulated the growth of the Latino population in the region. We use data from the Current Population Surveys (1988-1997) to assess the demographic and employment growth of the Latino population in the Midwest. Because of the limitations of secondary data, we also illustrate the growth of the Latino population with evidence from Nebraska and a selected area of the state. Data analysis suggests that population estimates of the Latino population generated by the US Bureau …

Global Forces And Latino Population Growth In The Midwest: A Regional And Subregional Analysis, Lourdes Gouveia, Rogelio Saenz

Latino/Latin American Studies Faculty Publications

The last decade has seen a significant growth of the Latino population in the Midwest, particularly in rural communities. We discuss the forces that have stimulated the growth of the Latino population in the region. We use data from the Current Population Surveys (1988-1997) to assess the demographic and employment growth of the Latino population in the Midwest. Because of the limitations of secondary data, we also illustrate the growth of the Latino population with evidence from Nebraska and a selected area of the state. Data analysis suggests that population estimates of the Latino population generated by the US Bureau …