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Anaconda is a town located in southwest Montana. Anaconda was established as a smelting operation to process copper ore. It is now home to one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States. Since the Superfund designation in 1983, agencies, nonprofit organizations, and stakeholders have worked to implement cleanup strategies. Community resilience has become a focus of this site. Community resilience has been studied through various lenses, but broadly refers to how a community responds and copes with a perturbation. This research considers environmental, cultural, and political perturbations. It focuses on the changes and transitions the community has gone through, and how different decisions lead to more or less resilience. Specifically, this research is interested in how the community perceives its own resilience. Previous community resilience research has often not given enough attention to complex social dynamics, which is the aim of this research. Preliminary findings from interviews with stakeholders will be discussed which highlight themes of trust, risk, and identity related to resilience. These findings have the potential to answer larger questions for other communities, especially those with legacies of mining or contamination.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Commerce of Sex in Costa Rica -- Part I. Sex, Class, and Consumption -- 2. Almighty Gringos and the Relational Economy of Sex Tourism -- 3. Selling Sex, Selling Care: Affective Labor in the Tourism Sector -- 4. Motherhood, Consumption, and the Purchase of Respectability -- Part II. Regulating Sex in the Age of Neoliberalism -- 5. The State and the Sex Industry -- 6. Good for the State, Bad for the Nation: Race, Space, and Migration -- Conclusion: Getting Ahead in Gringo Gulch -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San José, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men--men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual labor. But in Gringo Gulch, Megan Rivers-Moore tells a more nuanced story, demonstrating that all the actors intimately entangled in the sex tourism industry--sex workers, sex tourists, and the state--use it as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore situates her ethnography at the intersections of gender, race, class, and national dimensions in the sex industry. Instead of casting sex workers as hapless victims and sex tourists as neoimperialist racists, she reveals each group as involved in a complicated process of class mobility that must be situated within the sale and purchase of leisure and sex. These interactions operate within an almost entirely unregulated but highly competitive market beyond the reach of the state--bringing a distinctly neoliberal cast to the market. Throughout the book, Rivers-Moore introduces us to remarkable characters--Susan, a mother of two who doesn't regret her career of sex work; Barry, a teacher and father of two from Virginia who travels to Costa Rica to escape his loveless, sexless marriage; Nancy, a legal assistant in the Department of Labor who is shocked to find out that prostitution is legal and still unregulated. Gringo Gulch is a fascinating and groundbreaking look at sex tourism, Latin America, and the neoliberal state.

This article considers the role of beauty in Costa Rican sex work. In the context of sex tourism, beauty operates as affective labour performed by sex workers, labour that is mediated by deeply contradictory understandings of race and nation. Theorising beauty as a form of affective labour means thinking about beauty as value, as something that circulates, can be exchanged and is ultimately relational. While Costa Rica's national mythology has long focused on claims to white origins, sex tourists identify local women's 'exoticism' and non-whiteness as particularly appealing. Commercial sex does not simply depend on an imperial male gaze, but rather requires us to consider how particular national mythologies about race are linked to ideals of attractiveness in complex ways. I also explore how women experience and manage their sexual attractiveness to foreign tourists in their daily lives and work.

La incorporación social y económica de las poblaciones migrantes es posiblemente uno de los mayores desafíos que enfrentan los Estados modernos. La controversia de esta incorporación se vuelve especialmente tangible en los mercados laborales y, de interés para este capítulo, en las políticas de bienestar. No es coincidencia que en elecciones recientes, en países como Estados Unidos (Trump), el Reino Unido (Brexit), España (Rajoy), Francia (Le Pen), los Países Bajos (Wilders y Baudet) y Alemania (Gauland), la creciente popularidad de los partidos populistas de derecha y los sentimientos antinmigrantes se basen en gran medida en el debate sobre los derechos sociales de las personas migrantes y su acceso a los servicios sociales. De manera similar, en los países latinoamericanos que reciben más migrantes, la migración se ha convertido en un tema cada vez más politizado. Por ejemplo, durante el período previo a las elecciones de Costa Rica en 2018, la elección de Donald Trump en los EE.UU. fue como "música para los oídos" para las campañas políticas de la derecha (Gatica, 2017, p. 72). ; UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Sociales::Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (IIS)

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The perspective of homeless adults on their health care service utilization is not well studied. This article describes a study that used in-depth, semistructured interviews with 18 individuals to highlight the viewpoints of homeless people who are frequent users of the emergency department (ED) about the influence of life events on service utilization. Participants reported high levels of pain and comorbid psychiatric, substance use, and medical conditions. They also reported an identifiable pattern of health care utilization, often centered on a crisis event, influenced by high perceived medical needs, inability to cope after crisis, predisposing vulnerability from social determinants of health, and health care system factors. A social work case management intervention often led to a period of stability and use of ED alternatives. Modifiable targets for intervention at the health care system and local levels include improving trust and convenience of ED alternatives, enhancing consistency of care at ED-alternative sites, and educating those at risk of frequent ED use about community alternatives.

Background: Early career faculty experiences and perspectives on transdisciplinary research are important yet understudied. Methods: Assistant professors at 50 top-ranked social work programs completed an online survey assessing perspectives on the salience of transdisciplinary training in their field, obstacles to or negative impacts of transdisciplinary training, and current environments. Content analysis and descriptive statistics were used. Results: A large majority of all participants ( N = 118) believed that transdisciplinary research is important, that greater training is needed, and that they are relatively well prepared in related skill sets. They are expected to build cross-disciplinary collaborations, yet only a small minority believed that social work researchers are nationally recognized as important collaborators, or that they are prepared to navigate tensions on research teams. Conclusions: We offer a multilevel framework of structural and training supports needed to realize transdisciplinary research in social work with relevance to other disciplines.