Dr. Karen Thomas-Brown's Research Highlighted in Relational Poverty Network

The Relational Poverty Network convenes a community of scholars, working within and beyond academia, to develop conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and pedagogies for the study of relational poverty. Launched at a historical moment of dramatic income inequality and enforced austerity in the global North, the RPN thinks across geographical boundaries to foster a transnational and comparative approach to poverty research.  In doing so, it pays attention to new global geographies of development, new forms of regulating poverty, and analyses from those often marginalized by poverty debates.  Building on a long tradition of critical work on poverty, it shifts from thinking about ‘the poor and poor others’ to thinking about relationships of power and privilege. 

Narrating the lived experiences of migrant Jamaica teachers in the U.S.

"This research is a part of an active ongoing investigation into the notions of citizenships and the migration experiences of Jamaican teachers living in the United States. These teachers work mainly in inner city schools and are also participants in the historically globalized nature of the islands of the Caribbean. They are products of an education system in Jamaica that has historically adopted and readopted to societal needs as the political and economic fortunes of the island wax and wane. This research examines the impacts of and responses to the accelerated out migration of teachers in response to recruitment drives that originate in United States, Canada, and the UK as well as efforts by the Jamaican government to have Jamaican-trained teachers participate in international talent transfer." 


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