Whose Backyard? Boundary Making in NIMBY Opposition to Immigrant Services

A study examined the issue of NIMBYism in two cases where community organizations sought to create spaces and put in place services for immigrants to the U.S. NIMBYism can be conceptualized as the informal policing of physical and symbolic boundaries in order to retain places of domination and contr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maney, Gregory M. (Author)
Contributors: Abraham, Margaret
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2008
In: Social justice
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:
Cultural boundaries
Cultural exclusion
Immigrants
Immigrants > United States
Immigration opponents
NIMBY syndrome
Self-efficacy > Social aspects
Services for immigrants
Stereotypes > Social aspects
Victims