CBO performance in the shelter sector: A study of La Pina and Lebron, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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The role of the government and community-based organizations (CBOs) in the housing sector is examined and their interaction analyzed by studying shelter for poor in the Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. It is shown that the enabling approach can be effective if the government is supportive and CBOs are engaged in the planning, decision-making and implementation of the housing project since cooperation between NGO, CBOs and households is crucial for the success o the housing project.
Publication Name: Urban Geography
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0272-3638
Year: 2006
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From Santo Domingo to Indians rookie
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Manny Ramirez is a 19-year-old immigrant from Dominican Republic who is doing well in baseball and is currently playing for the Appalachian League Burlington Indians. Being young, Ramirez still gets sentimentally homesick especially for Washington Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan where he lived with other Dominican immigrants. Ramirez has just received a contract incentive of $250,000 as the No.1 drat pick.
Publication Name: Migration World Magazine
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1058-5095
Year: 1992
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The world settles in: Washington, DC, as an immigrant gateway
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A study investigates the ethnic geography of a new immigrant gateway, Washington, DC, using Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) data to map the residential decisions of immigrant newcomers by zip code from 1990 to 1998. Spatially, a very diverse, dispersed, and suburbanized pattern of newcomer settlement emerges, one that contradicts many of the assumptions of the spatial assimilation model.
Publication Name: Urban Geography
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0272-3638
Year: 2005
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