State of disaster : the failure of U.S. migration policy in an age of climate change / Maria Cristina Garcia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García, María Cristina, 1960- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental refugees--Government policy--United States.

Environmental refugees.

Disaster relief--Government policy--United States.

Disaster relief.

Disaster relief--Government policy--United States--Territories and possessions.

Environmental disasters--Social aspects--Caribbean Area--Case studies.

Environmental disasters.

Environmental disasters--Social aspects--Central America--Case studies.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Caribbean Area.

United States--Foreign relations--Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 17, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781469669977

1469669978

9781469669984

1469669986

Publisher Number:

40031284852

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.