Lisa Konczal
Biographic Data
| ID | 172427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Konczal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Konczal |
| SIGNATURE | KONCZAL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barry University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Structural violence and compassionate compatriots
Based on more than twenty in-depth interviews with health care professionals in Miami-Dade County clinics and hospitals, this study explores immigrant access to health care. We focus on some of the debates that took place during the 2009-10 process of US health care reform, which uncovered a pervasive public fear that immigrants illegitimately access health care. This study found the opposite: immigrants in South Florida often avoid primary healt…
Fit to Miss, but Matched to Hatch
This article examines the elements of successful outcomes among disadvantaged members of the South Florida immigrant communities and assesses the utility of rational choice theory and the Wisconsin model. The findings are derived from ethnographic interviews and analysis of two of the most underprivileged South Florida districts, Little Haiti and Hialeah. The article builds upon the elements of success as identified in the lead article of this vo…
"Murdering the Alphabet" Identity and entrepreneurship among second-generation Cubans, West Indians, and Central Americans
On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in 2002 this article explores various dimensions of segmented assimilation. We focus on collective self-definitions, and various forms of self-employment as facets of that process. We introduce the concept of expressive entrepreneurship to identify some of the ways in which immigrant youths attempt to circumvent conventional markets in their pursuit of success and meaning. Their actions are partly t…
"Murdering the Alphabet" Identity and entrepreneurship among second-generation Cubans, West Indians, and Central Americans
On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in 2002 this article explores various dimensions of segmented assimilation. We focus on collective self-definitions, and various forms of self-employment as facets of that process. We introduce the concept of expressive entrepreneurship to identify some of the ways in which immigrant youths attempt to circumvent conventional markets in their pursuit of success and meaning. Their actions are partly t…
Structural violence and compassionate compatriots
Based on more than twenty in-depth interviews with health care professionals in Miami-Dade County clinics and hospitals, this study explores immigrant access to health care. We focus on some of the debates that took place during the 2009-10 process of US health care reform, which uncovered a pervasive public fear that immigrants illegitimately access health care. This study found the opposite: immigrants in South Florida often avoid primary healt…
Fit to Miss, but Matched to Hatch
This article examines the elements of successful outcomes among disadvantaged members of the South Florida immigrant communities and assesses the utility of rational choice theory and the Wisconsin model. The findings are derived from ethnographic interviews and analysis of two of the most underprivileged South Florida districts, Little Haiti and Hialeah. The article builds upon the elements of success as identified in the lead article of this vo…
"Murdering the Alphabet" Identity and entrepreneurship among second-generation Cubans, West Indians, and Central Americans
On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in 2002 this article explores various dimensions of segmented assimilation. We focus on collective self-definitions, and various forms of self-employment as facets of that process. We introduce the concept of expressive entrepreneurship to identify some of the ways in which immigrant youths attempt to circumvent conventional markets in their pursuit of success and meaning. Their actions are partly t…
Fit to Miss, but Matched to Hatch
This article examines the elements of successful outcomes among disadvantaged members of the South Florida immigrant communities and assesses the utility of rational choice theory and the Wisconsin model. The findings are derived from ethnographic interviews and analysis of two of the most underprivileged South Florida districts, Little Haiti and Hialeah. The article builds upon the elements of success as identified in the lead article of this vo…
Structural violence and compassionate compatriots
Based on more than twenty in-depth interviews with health care professionals in Miami-Dade County clinics and hospitals, this study explores immigrant access to health care. We focus on some of the debates that took place during the 2009-10 process of US health care reform, which uncovered a pervasive public fear that immigrants illegitimately access health care. This study found the opposite: immigrants in South Florida often avoid primary healt…
Immigration (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works)