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Omar Pérez: Submarine Roots, Resisting (un)natural disasters

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I am interested in seeing how social ties and networks have been used to cope with (un)natural disasters. My research focus on places under disasters conditions such as Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria, in which social ties have made the difference between life and death. Furthermore, “natural” disaster has been used to approved austerity measures and unjust policies to impoverished communities like in New Orleans after Katrina. These policies were not new, as they are rooted in structures of power to preserve the status quo. Yet, people have resisted, “through a network of branches, cultures, and geographies” that has stimulated a reflective process of looking within for solutions rather than outside. As often this outside solutions are not only detached from community’s reality but can perpetuate social injustices and inequalities.

McKittrick, K., & Woods, C. A. (Eds.). (2007). Black geographies and the politics of place. South End Press.

Bullard, R. D., & Wright, B. (Eds.). (2009). Race, place, and environmental justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to reclaim, rebuild, and revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Westview Press.

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WTC is World Trade Centre Health Program by the Department of Health and Human Services, which is provide beginning on July 1, 2011. This policy was created and influenced by 9/11 Terrorist attack. To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and improve protections and services to individuals who impacted by the attack, and for other purposes.

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  • The author describes inhumane conditions requiring medical treatment enhance the poor situations for immigrants.
  • The analyses of the shifts in political discourse and practice shows the complexities of immigrant, disaster and poverty.
  • There are stories shows the humanitarianism is faced to inequality and violence. As well as how the conditions and situations are changed by the time.