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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Autor principal: Maney, Gregory M. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Abraham, Margaret
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2008
En: Social justice
Año: 2008, Volumen: 35, Número: 4, Páginas: 66-82
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Palabras clave:
Cultural boundaries
Cultural exclusion
Immigrants
Immigrants > United States
Immigration opponents
NIMBY syndrome
Self-efficacy > Social aspects
Services for immigrants
Stereotypes > Social aspects
Victims