Housing and Economy in 21st Century America: Role of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Class and Migration-I
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/26/2022
Start Time: 9:40 AM
End Time: 11:00 AM
Theme: Geographies of Access: Inclusion and Pathways
Sponsor Group(s):
Ethnic Geography Specialty Group
, Population Specialty Group
, Economic Geography Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Madhuri Sharma
, Michael Webb
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Chairs(s):
Madhuri Sharma, University of Tennessee
; Michael Webb, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Description:
This session focuses on various aspects of economy and wealth disparity within and among population groups -- within the North American context and in other parts of the world. In doing so, this session focuses on research that may address socio-spatial variations of home-ownerships, rental-opportunities as well as migration-based unequal economic spaces that create varying and different levels of economic gain and wealth accumulations may vary across space due to factors interfacing -- including and not exclusively the elements of race/ethnicity, gender, immigrants/nationality, income/class, etc. how might they get shaped due to distinct spatial/scalar policies, environmental issues, and the like. Out of different types of wealth, housing is critical for a person's physical, mental, and emotional well-being and within the context of USA, a significant share of population feel discriminated because of their racial/ethnic, gender, sexuality and/or class differences. Regarding these issues, women in general and women in minority and immigrant groups in particular have also suffered enormously due to their historical confinement in lower-waged feminine industries/jobs that are traditionally associated with lower pay and lower benefits that negatively impact their economic well-being and overall wealth accumulation, and housing is one major aspect of life-long parameter of wealth accumulation. Recent work also suggests that the pandemic has also impacted various population groups through their wealth accumulation in terms of housing opportunities -- either rental and/or through home-ownerships. Covid-19 forced many people out of jobs and their homes -- especially through forced evictions -- owned or rented, because they could no longer afford to live in those homes. Rent was beyond their income and affordability was difficult as many people lost jobs during the pandemic. This session specifically focuses on research that somehow captures various dimensions of economic and wealth accumulation disparities through home-ownerships and/or rent-burdens/renter-ships in general in North America or other parts of the world, and if that might have been impacted somehow due to the recent pandemic.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Agnieszka Ogrodowczyk, ; Market-Based Housing Reforms and the Residualization of Public Housing: The Experience of Łódź, Poland |
David Eisenhauer, Dartmouth College; Spaces of Coastal Capitalism in the United States: Race, Housing, and Coastal Management |
Cassandra Gutierrez, ; Redefining Adaptation through the Perspective of Latin American Return Migrants from South Korea |
Sara Maxwell, University of Tennessee - Knoxville; A Consideration of Trees as Workers Amidst an Environmental Justice Struggle Against the Wood Pellet Industry on the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the United States |
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
| Role | Participant |
| Other | Agnieszka Ogrodowczyk |
| Other | NaYeon Lee The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers |
| Other | David Eisenhauer Bennington College |
| Other | Cassandra Alexandrina Gutierrez Seoul National University |
| Other | Sara Maxwell University of North Carolina |
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Housing and Economy in 21st Century America: Role of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Class and Migration-I
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Madhuri Sharma - msharma3@utk.edu
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