Thomas Kevin J. A. Thomas

Global Epidemics, Local Implications (eBook, PDF)

African Immigrants and the Ebola Crisis in Dallas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In December 2013, a series of Ebola infections in Meliandou, Guinea, set off a chain of events culminating in the world's largest Ebola epidemic. Concerns about the virus in the United States reached a peak when Thomas Duncan, a Liberian national visiting family in Dallas, became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola and die of the disease on US soil. In Global Epidemics, Local Implications, Kevin J. A. Thomas highlights the complex ways in which disease outbreaks that begin in one part of the world affect the lives of immigrants in another. Drawing on information from a community survey, participant observations, government documents, and newspapers, Thomas examines how African immigrants were negatively affected by public backlash and their agency and resilience in responding to the consequences of epidemic. Ultimately, this book shows how these responses underscore the importance of immigrant resources for developing public health interventions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781421433004
• Artikelnr.: 59625169

Autorenporträt

Kevin J. A. Thomas is a professor of sociology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases and Diverse Pathways: Race and the Incorporation of Black, White, and Arab-Origin Africans in the United States.