Research
Refereed Journal Articles
Blue, Sarah. 2005. Including
Women in Development: Guatemalan Refugees and Local NGOs.
Latin American Perspectives, 32(5): 101-117. Abstract
Blue, Sarah. 2004. State Policy, Economic Crisis, Gender, and Family Ties: Determinants of Family Remittances to Cuba. Economic Geography, 80(1): 63-82. Abstract
Clark, William A.V. and Sarah A. Blue. 2004. Race, Class and Segregation Patterns in U.S. Immigrant Gateway Cities. Urban Affairs Review, 39(6): 667-688. Abstract
Refereed Journal Articles
Blue, Sarah. 2005. Including
Women in Development: Guatemalan Refugees and Local NGOs.
Latin American Perspectives, 32(5): 101-117.
Recent years have witnessed
an important shift in the administration of development aid away from large
governmental programs to the smaller projects of non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) and widespread recognition of the general failure of governmental programs
to include women in development. As NGOs have emerged as a critical link in
incorporating women in development projects, adopting strategies which directly
address both women’s local concerns and the contextually specific barriers
to their participation is of critical importance to the ultimate success or
failure of any project. A case study of the women’s organization Mamá
Maquín shows how different socio-political environments and the agendas
of different kinds of NGOs created very different outcomes for women’s
empowerment in Mexican refugee camps and in communities of returned refugees
in Guatemala. This contrast is used to illustrate the necessity of devising
a structural, place-based strategy for development with the consultation and
participation of the women themselves to successfully include women in development
projects.
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This article advances the argument that changing economic conditions in the home country act as an important determinant for sending remittances. Current research on the determinants of remittances tends to focus on the characteristics of the sending population. In the specific case of Cuba, there is a disproportionate concern with political disincentives to send remittances and not enough attention paid to the growing economic demand for remittances in that country. Using empirical data gathered from households in Havana, Cuba, this article tests the importance of length of time away from home, economic conditions in the home country, political ideology, the relationship of the sender to the receiver, and gender as determinants for remittances. Migration during an economic crisis, having close relatives in the home country, and female gender positively influenced remittance behavior for Cuban emigrants. No support was found for political disincentives as a major determinant for remittance sending to Cuba.
Clark, William A.V. and Sarah A. Blue. 2004. Race, Class and Segregation Patterns in U.S. Immigrant Gateway Cities. Urban Affairs Review, 39(6): 667-688.
Previous studies have shown some tendency toward increased residential racial and ethnic integration, especially in large West Coast metropolitan areas. They have also shown in limited studies that integration, or at least declines in separation, occur with increases in socioeconomic status. The results of this study, using recently released 2000 census data for metropolitan areas with large numbers of foreign born, show that indeed separation does decline with increases in socioeconomic status though it also varies by geography, education, and income and is significantly variable across different ethnic groups in the large immigrant cities. The research in this study also documents the continuing hierarchy of greater integration of Whites with Asians and Whites with Hispanics than with African Americans. It is clear that the changing patterns of separation have moved beyond Black-White contexts. Still, class clearly matters, as integration is greater at higher education levels, and suburban areas in general are more integrated than urban cores.
