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Why are undocumented immigrants particularly vulnerable to wildfires and pandemics.
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FEMA won’t cover undocumented workers. That needs to change!
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Could climate change be a catalyst for real immigration reform?
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Who is a “worthy disaster victim.”
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What is “contextual vulnerability”?
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Recommendations on how to consider climate justice issues in your adaptation plan (or your updates)
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How understanding the differential impacts on undocumented immigrants can help improve disaster planning to protect the most vulnerable and stigmatized populations.
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Managed Retreat and Undocumented workers
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Links in episode:
New Book: Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement, through Yale University Press at:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300232158/climate-change-streets
The (in)visible victims of disaster: Understanding the vulnerability of undocumented Latino/a and indigenous immigrants, through Geoforum. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718520301925
https://socalgrantmakers.org/blog/centering-undocumented-californians-and-migrants-disaster-resilience
Behind the Bougainvillea Curtain: Wildfires and Inequality
https://issues.org/wildfires-inequality-indigenous-undocumented-workers-mendez/?fbclid=IwAR30qR60hU5X0wAlB_HivX9nGK6Pfk17FwAjBO4l1ZKb-M9gL34dbHFyxxQ
http://www.michaelanthonymendez.com/about-michael-a.html
https://www.kqed.org/news/11906110/disaster-planning-leaves-out-queer-people
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300232158/climate-change-streets/
Archived Episodes Highlighted in this episode:
In episode 96, The Once and Future Republican Party – Conservatism and Climate Change, I’m joined by Bob Inglis, former republican Congressman from South Carolina and now Executive Director of RepublicEN.