Report By CUED’s Nik Theodore Cited In Earther Article
In “I Have Rights:’ How Undocumented Laborers Are Exploited During Disaster Recovery,” on Gizmodo Earther, CUED Director Nik Theodore discussed the role of immigrant workers after natural disasters as second responders. The story referenced Theodore’s 2017 report that "found that more than one-quarter of the 361 day laborers surveyed (most of whom were undocumented) in Houston had suffered wage theft in the four weeks immediately after Hurricane Harvey.”
“Immigrant workers in that city are, as we say in the report, second responders,” Nik Theodore, the report’s author and director of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Center for Urban Economic Development, told Earther. “They’re the ones who go in and help businesses and families clean up after major natural disasters. These workers are basically working without much protection, doing the hard work to get their lives back on track.” Read more here.