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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants
(University of Chicago Press, 2012-03)This article analyzes how Central American immigrants in tenuous legal statuses experience current immigration laws. Based on ethnographic observations and over 200 interviews conducted between 1998 and 2009 with immigrants ... -
Assumption- versus data-based approaches to summarizing species’ ranges
(Wiley, 2016-08-04)Species’ geographic distributions are mapped using various approaches for use in conservation decision-making. Some such mapping efforts have relied on modifications of coarse-resolution extent-of-occurrence maps to downscale ... -
East L.A., Seoul, and Military Mysteries in Martin Limón’s Slicky Boys and The Wandering Ghost
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DATASETS FOR: Distributional Potential of the Critically Endangered Forest Owlet in Central India
(2016-05-11)Maps developed based on known occurrences of Forest Owlet. Maps are provided to facilitate searches for additional populations. -
DATASETS FOR Zika Virus, Elevation, and Transmission Risk
(PLoS Currents Outbreaks, 2016-04-29)Introduction: Zika virus has appeared in the Americas in the form of a major outbreak, and is now known to cause birth defects when pregnant women are infected. As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ... -
Bird conservation and biodiversity research in Mexico: status and priorities
(Wiley, 2016-03-28)Mexico holds a megadiverse avifauna that includes many endemic elements, as well as rich sets of species from both farther north and farther south in the Americas. This avifauna, nonetheless, has suffered considerable ... -
DATASETS FOR Digital Accessible Knowledge and Well-inventoried Sites for Birds in Mexico: Baseline Sites for Measuring Faunistic Change
(2016-04-12)A dataset that summarizes sites across Mexico for which detailed, complete inventories of bird faunas are available for prior to 1980, and the many locality names that correspond to each site (note that these names include ... -
DATASETS FOR Digital Accessible Knowledge and Well-inventoried Sites for Birds in Mexico: Baseline Sites for Measuring Faunistic Change
(2016-04-12)Two datasets that summarize sites across Mexico for which detailed, complete inventories of bird faunas are available for prior to 1980. Both are shapefiles for use in GIS programs, and are in the WGS 1984 coordinate system ... -
Indices of Biodiversity Pattern Based on Presence-Absence Matrices: A GIS Implementation
(University of Kansas, 2015)In this work we present mathematical notation and formulae relating a number of indices of the biodiversity pattern of an aggregate of species, and an Open Source implementation of them as a plug-in for the increasingly ... -
Interpretation of Models of Fundamental Ecological Niches and Species’ Distributional Areas
(University of Kansas, 2005)Ecological niche modeling?that is, estimation of the dimensions of fundamental ecological niches of species?to predict their geographic distributions is increasingly being employed in systematics, ecology, conservation, ... -
Uses and Requirements of Ecological Niche Models and Related Distributional Models
(University of Kansas, 2006)Modeling approaches that relate known occurrences of species to landscape features to discover ecological properties and predict geographic occurrences have seen extensive recent application in ecology, systematics, and ... -
Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His Nueva corónica
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s handwritten illustrated book, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno, from 1615—honored by UNESCO as a “Memory of the World” item—rewrote Andean history in accordance with his goals of reforming Spanish ... -
Guano Inside-Out
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Patenting Human Evolution
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In Memoriam: Professor William Arthur Kelly
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Design and Challenges of Banking and Foreign Exchange Regulation in India
(2015)In the post-British Raj Era, two hallmarks characterize Indian banking law: financial inclusion and financial liberalization. Indian banking law and policy has emphasized incorporation of the unbanked and under-banked as ... -
Não é apenas sobre nós: Food as a Mechanism to Address Social and Environmental Injustices in Mato Grosso, Brazil
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)The Landless Workers Movement (MST) is one of the most important social movements in the world for the implementation of agrarian land reform. Their fight for access to land has been based on the premise that land should ... -
“Respecting the Separateness of Others:” Segregationist Opposition to American Foreign Aid and the Formation of a Southern Internationalism, 1946-1973
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The end of World War II, decolonization, and the emerging Cold War made forming an antiracist foreign and domestic policy an imperative for the United States. This context meant that segregation at home tarnished the ... -
Visualizing the Passion in Andrés de Li's Summa de paciencia
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014-06)In 1505, Jorge Coci reprinted in Zaragoza Andrés de Li’s Summa de paciencia. Its sole pictorial element is a single, full-page image of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, also known as the Imago pietatis. This essay explores ... -
The Effect of Religion on Latin American Migration to the United States
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This paper explores the effects of religion on Latin American migration to the United States. It updates the existing literature on the effect of religion on the six stages of migration (decision, preparation, journey, ...