State of Disaster : The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change /

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"Focusing on Central America and the Caribbean, State of Disaster traces the development of U.S. refugee, humanitarian, and immigration policies in response to the 1995-2004 series of volcanic eruptions in Monserrat in the Leeward Islands, Hurricane Mitch in Honduras and Nicaragua in 1998, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: García, María Cristina, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Environmental disasters > Social aspects > Central America > Case studies.
Environmental disasters > Social aspects > Caribbean Area > Case studies.
Disaster relief > Government policy > United States > Territories and possessions.
Disaster relief > Government policy > United States.
Environmental refugees > Government policy > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Central America.
United States > Foreign relations > Caribbean Area.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In search of a sustainable refuge
  • What a volcano revealed about the vulnerability of small island states
  • Disaster relief as foreign policy: when poverty, conflict, and catastrophe collide
  • What protections and benefits? Coloniality and citizenship in the U.S. territories
  • Moving forward: natural disasters may be inevitable; good U.S. policy is not.

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