Global Epidemics Local Implications: African Immigrants and the Ebola Crisis in Dallas
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How fear and stigma affected the lives of African immigrants during the global Ebola epidemicand the resilient ways in which immigrant communities responded. In December 2013 a series of Ebola infections in Meliandou Guinea set off a chain of events culminating in the worlds 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.
