Kerr Houston. Review of  "Building the Cold War:  Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture"  by Annabel Jane Wharton.

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“…In particular, this study focuses on the long-term recovery after Hurricane Harvey, which dropped an unprecedented amount of rainfall on Houston, leading to record-breaking, catastrophic flooding (Blake and Zelinsky 2018). Overall, Harvey resulted in $125 billion in losses, damaging 203,000 homes and destroying 12,700 (Wharton 2018), making it the second most expensive disaster in U.S. history behind Hurricane Katrina (Amadeo 2017). The immense devastation as a result of Harvey makes this an important case study.…”

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Long-term housing recovery among Mexican immigrants: How service providers navigate racialized anti-immigrant disaster recovery policies

Villarreal

2023

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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Disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity. Much of the current disaster literature adopts a social vulnerability perspective, which considers how political, social, and economic factors influence pre-disaster preparation and post-disaster recovery. Even with this focus, however, there remains a dearth of literature on immigrant populations and their long-term recovery trajectories. This paper applies a racial formation framework to a disaster context. I seek to show how service providers from community-based organizations (CBOs) navigate racialized anti-immigrant disaster recovery policies to help the Mexican immigrant community in Houston, Texas with their long-term housing recovery after Hurricane Harvey. I conducted semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations with service providers from CBOs located in Houston that serve this population with post-disaster housing. I argue that the disaster recovery system is comprised of racial structures and racialized anti-immigrant policies, passively and actively limiting the access to resources for the Mexican immigrant community. I found that to challenge the racial structures and racialized anti-immigrant policies of the disaster recovery system, service providers assist the community through direct assistance to Mexican immigrants excluded from other programs; collaboration with other organizations to combine limited resources; helping the community navigate racialized anti-immigrant bureaucracy; and building trust by embedding themselves in the victimized community. However, findings also show that these organizations face significant challenges in conducting their work. This research brings a much-needed theoretical expansion of race and racialization theories to disaster research.

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Long-term housing recovery among Mexican immigrants: How service providers navigate racialized anti-immigrant disaster recovery policies

Villarreal

2023

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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Kerr Houston. Review of "Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture" by Annabel Jane Wharton.

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Long-term housing recovery among Mexican immigrants: How service providers navigate racialized anti-immigrant disaster recovery policies

Long-term housing recovery among Mexican immigrants: How service providers navigate racialized anti-immigrant disaster recovery policies

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