Life at the Center : Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston / Erica Caple James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Erica Caple, Author.

Series:

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Series

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Massachusetts--Boston--Charities.

Catholic Church.

Catholic institutions--Massachusetts--Boston.

Catholic institutions.

Church charities--Massachusetts--Boston.

Church charities.

Church work with immigrants--Massachusetts--Boston.

Church work with immigrants.

Equality--Massachusetts--Boston.

Equality.

Haitian Americans--Services for--Massachusetts--Boston.

Haitian Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Life at the Center, Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and immigrants attain economic independence, health, security, and citizenship in the United States. Using the concept of “corporate Catholicism,” James documents several paradoxes of assistance arising among the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, and the Haitian Multi-Service Center: how social assistance produces and reproduces structural inequalities between providers and recipients; how these inequities may deepen aid recipients’ dependence and lead to resistance to organized benevolence; how institutional financial deficits harmed clients and providers; and how the same modes of charity or philanthropy that previously caused harm can be redeployed to repair damage and rebuild “charitable brands.” The culmination of more than a decade of advocacy and research on behalf of the Haitians in Boston, this groundbreaking work exposes how Catholic corporations have strengthened—but also eroded—Haitians’ civic power.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

1 Life at the Center

2 Building the Brand Migrants and Roman Catholic Charity

3 Life in Purgatorial Spaces: Haitian Migrants between Church, State, and Law

4 Memory Palace I: The Birth of the Center

5 Corporate Secrets

6 Corporate Schisms: Life and Death between Church, State, and Law

7 Memory Palace II: Everyday Life and Death at the Center

8 Inscribing and Incorporating Life

9 Bureaucratic Disenchantments and Wounds of Charity

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)

ISBN:

9780520400559

0520400550

OCLC:

1412153925