Deepak Lamba-Nieves
Biographic Data
| ID | 1249522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deepak Lamba-Nieves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deepak |
| FAMILY NAME | Lamba-Nieves |
| SIGNATURE | LAMBA-NIEVES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for a New Economy, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who Gets Emergency Housing Relief? An Analysis of Fema Individual Assistance Data After Hurricane María
In the months after Hurricane María’s devastation of Puerto Rico, press outlets and advocacy groups documented how Puerto Rico’s experience with housing repair and reconstruction programs was rife with complaints and inconsistencies regarding approval of applications and denial of support, especially among vulnerable communities. These problems are not unique to Puerto Rico and have been frequently raised by numerous communities in the United Sta…
Hometown associations and the micropolitics of transnational community development
This article argues that a closer inspection of the historical trajectories and the evolving micropolitics of hometown associations (HTAs) expands our understanding of how community development is practised across borders. Drawing from six years of ethnographic, multi-sited fieldwork carried out in the Dominican Republic and the United States, focusing on the experience of three Dominican HTAs, the evidence presented demonstrates how working dyna…
Social Remittances Revisited
In this article we revisit the concept of social remittances. First, we show how people's experiences before migrating strongly influence what they do in the countries where they settle; this, in turn, affects what they remit back to their homelands. Second, just as scholars differentiate between individual and collective economic remittances, we also distinguish between individual and collective social remittances. While individuals communicate …
Social Remittances Revisited
In this article we revisit the concept of social remittances. First, we show how people's experiences before migrating strongly influence what they do in the countries where they settle; this, in turn, affects what they remit back to their homelands. Second, just as scholars differentiate between individual and collective economic remittances, we also distinguish between individual and collective social remittances. While individuals communicate …
Hometown associations and the micropolitics of transnational community development
This article argues that a closer inspection of the historical trajectories and the evolving micropolitics of hometown associations (HTAs) expands our understanding of how community development is practised across borders. Drawing from six years of ethnographic, multi-sited fieldwork carried out in the Dominican Republic and the United States, focusing on the experience of three Dominican HTAs, the evidence presented demonstrates how working dyna…
Social Remittances Revisited
In this article we revisit the concept of social remittances. First, we show how people's experiences before migrating strongly influence what they do in the countries where they settle; this, in turn, affects what they remit back to their homelands. Second, just as scholars differentiate between individual and collective economic remittances, we also distinguish between individual and collective social remittances. While individuals communicate …
Hometown associations and the micropolitics of transnational community development
This article argues that a closer inspection of the historical trajectories and the evolving micropolitics of hometown associations (HTAs) expands our understanding of how community development is practised across borders. Drawing from six years of ethnographic, multi-sited fieldwork carried out in the Dominican Republic and the United States, focusing on the experience of three Dominican HTAs, the evidence presented demonstrates how working dyna…
Who Gets Emergency Housing Relief? An Analysis of Fema Individual Assistance Data After Hurricane María
In the months after Hurricane María’s devastation of Puerto Rico, press outlets and advocacy groups documented how Puerto Rico’s experience with housing repair and reconstruction programs was rife with complaints and inconsistencies regarding approval of applications and denial of support, especially among vulnerable communities. These problems are not unique to Puerto Rico and have been frequently raised by numerous communities in the United Sta…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 works) · Affect (1 work) · Agrarian society (1 work)