{"id":24345,"date":"2010-06-06T10:52:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24345"},"modified":"2017-09-16T23:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T04:44:39","slug":"what-does-displacement-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/06\/what-does-displacement-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Displacement Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when huge numbers of people lose their homes? \u00a0 Hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their homes in the giant earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince in January.\u00a0 Six months later, resource-poor and with little help from their government, they remain homeless.\u00a0 When there are that many displaced people, where do they live?\u00a0 Apparently, everywhere.\u00a0 This week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=127212850\" target=\"_self\">NPR reported<\/a> that about 1,000 people are living in 326 make-shift structures on an 8-foot-wide median dividing one of Haiti&#8217;s busiest roads.<\/p>\n<p>If private property is off-limits, public space fills up, and temporary housing isn&#8217;t provided, where are people to go?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when huge numbers of people lose their homes? \u00a0 Hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their homes in the giant earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince in January.\u00a0 Six months later, resource-poor and with little help from their government, they remain homeless.\u00a0 When there are that many displaced people, where do they live?\u00a0 Apparently, everywhere.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,126,1781,304,341,307],"class_list":["post-24345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-disaster","tag-nation-haiti","tag-the-state","tag-ruralurban","tag-traveltourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24345"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71293,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24345\/revisions\/71293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}