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2 produkter
2 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
741 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Examining the long-term social consequences of epidemic survival in post-Ebola West Africa.What happens to survivors when an epidemic ends and the headlines fade? In Life After Epidemics, Kevin J. A. Thomas confronts this pressing question through the voices of those who lived through the world's deadliest Ebola outbreak. Based on interviews with 250 survivors in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the book reveals how, years after their recovery, many continue to endure long-term health issues, economic hardship, and social exclusion, conditions which are often exacerbated by their preexisting marginalization. The 2014–2016 West African Ebola epidemic left more than 17,000 survivors. Yet even as governments and international agencies celebrated medical successes and invested in disease surveillance and vaccine development, they offered minimal attention to the social realities unfolding in the epidemic's aftermath. This book documents how the lack of sustained social response through support for livelihoods, reintegration, and long-term care has had lasting consequences on former patients and their communities. Thomas argues that these devastating consequences are even worse for those already facing poverty, stigma, and social invisibility. Yet amid these challenges, many survivors have found ways to reframe their experiences, participate in recovery efforts, and forge new roles within their communities. Their stories speak not only to resilience but to the unfinished work of public health systems that still treat survival as a conclusion rather than a beginning. Life After Epidemics makes the case that addressing the aftermath of outbreaks must go beyond emergency medical responses to encompass the complex social dimensions that shape recovery while reconsidering what it means to truly heal after crisis.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
761 kr
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Africans are among the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States. Although they are racially and ethnically diverse, few studies have examined how these differences affect their patterns of incorporation into society. This book is the first to highlight the role of race and ethnicity, Arab ethnicity in particular, in shaping the experiences of African immigrants. It demonstrates that American conceptions of race result in significant inequalities in the ways in which African immigrants are socially integrated. Thomas argues that suggestions that Black Africans are model-minorities who have overcome the barriers of race are misleading, showing that Black and Arab-ethnicity Africans systematically experience less favorable socioeconomic outcomes than their White African counterparts. Overall, the book makes three critical arguments. First, historical and contemporary constructions of race have important implications for understanding the dynamics of African immigration and settlement in the United States. Second, there are significant racial inequalities in the social and economic incorporation of contemporary African immigrants. Finally, Arab ethnicity has additional implications for understanding intra-racial disparities in incorporation among contemporary African immigrants. In general, these arguments are foundational for understanding the diversity of African immigrant experiences.