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Title: Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education, and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: McDaniel, Paul
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Education and state
Description: Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structures related to a community's political, economic, social, and cultural sphere...

Title: Does Planning Build Resilience in Hydraulic Fracturing Communities?
Author: Underwood, Catherine
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sustainability, Social sciences--Research, Land use--Planning
Description: Despite its long history in the United States and abroad, the unconventional drilling industry, and specifically hydraulic fracturing technology, remain controversial. While the competing demands of energy from oil and gas are contrasted with envi...

Title: Assessing community resilience at the neighborhood level in new construction starter-homes in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Author: Currie, Melissa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning, Social sciences--Research
Description: This research explores the resiliency of new construction, "starter-home" neighborhoods using the Charlotte, North Carolina area as a study location. Such developments are characterized by nearly identical homes priced at $150,000 or less (a local...

Title: Improving Outcomes for Families Involved in Child Protective Services Through an Enhanced Understanding of Residential Mobility's Impact on Caregiver-Child Relationships
Author: Johnson, Virginia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Reducing residential mobility among families involved in Child Protective Services (CPS) has the potential to alleviate some of the negative consequences associated with child maltreatment by reducing families’ stress and minimizing disruptions in...

Title: Exploring Latino Healthcare Service Provision in a Pre-emerging Immigrant gateway state
Author: Dixon, James
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: As Latinos continue to grow in population and impact, both nationwide and in the U.S. South, so too must the appropriate and equitable provision of services. Healthcare service provision is particularly important to Latinos as research shows they ...

Title: PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY ON MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE: LINKING SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND SEA LEVEL RISE
Author: Stuber, Robyn
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning, Sustainability
Description: Sustainability science is a growing field that encompasses the study of the environment, the economy, and social equity. However, with the ever-growing literature base surrounding sustainability, defining the issue has continued to be elusive, esp...

Title: Socio-spatial Geographies of Hispanic Immigrant Youth Accessing the Urban Labor Market
Author: Schuch, Johanna
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Geography, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This study combines interviews, questionnaires, journaling, mental mapping, and a participatory action research (PAR) project to examine the lived experiences of Hispanic immigrant youth as they navigate the labor market. Research questions addres...

Title: The best deal in town? Associations between public housing and labor market inequality in the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner MSA
Author: Gleave, Sara
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning
Description: Economic inequality for racial and ethnic minority groups, exacerbated by their spatial segregation, has been a central focus in urban geography. While there is accumulating research examining the socio-spatial process of urban labor market inequa...

Title: The Influence of Urban Restructuring on the Social Determinants of Health in a Hispanic Immigrant Population in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Author: Urquieta de Hernandez, Brisa
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health
Description: The environment where a person lives impacts their health more than clinical care provided. (RWJF, 2013) This research posits that the determinants of health (DOH) are best understood as a combination of social, structural, spatial and temporal as...

Title: THE IMPACT OF THE 287(G) PROGRAM ON PROCESSES OF HISPANIC INTEGRATION AND ENGAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Mathema, Silva
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: This research explores the impacts of a federal-local partnership called the 287(g) program on the processes of integration of Hispanics in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina. Federal 287(g) allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to p...

Title: SPATIAL TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE: CHARLOTTE, NC
Author: Delmelle, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, City planning
Description: Quality of life (QoL) is an encompassing measure of a neighborhood's condition, describing the well-being an individual may expect by residing in a particular place. Over time, some or all of these conditions will change for the better or worse, y...