Displaced : life in the Katrina diaspora /

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Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrinas landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. Katrina survivors eventually scattered a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Research Network on Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Otros Autores: Weber, Lynn, Peek, Lori A.
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Katrina bookshelf.
Temas:
2005
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects.
Refugees > Louisiana > New Orleans > Social conditions.
Internally displaced persons > United States > Social conditions.
Disaster victims > United States > Social conditions.
Disaster relief > Social aspects > United States.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005 > Aspect social.
Réfugiés > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Conditions sociales.
Personnes déplacées dans leur pays > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Victimes de catastrophes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Aspect social > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief
Disaster relief > Social aspects.
Refugees > Social conditions.
Social aspects.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Documenting displacement : an introduction / Lynn Weber and Lori Peek
  • The research network / Lynn Weber
  • Receiving communities / introduction by Lee M. Miller. They call it "Katrina fatigue" : displaced families and discrimination in Colorado / Lori Peek ; The basement of extreme poverty : Katrina survivors and poverty programs / Laura Lein [and others] ; Living through displacement : housing insecurity among low-income evacuees / Jessica W. Pardee ; When demand exceeds supply : disaster response and the Southern political economy / Lynn Weber ; Katrina evacuee reception in rural East Texas : rethinking disaster "recovery" / Lee M. Miller ; Permanent temporariness : displaced children in Louisiana / Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek
  • Social networks / introduction by Jacquelyn Litt. Help from family, friends, and strangers during Hurricane Katrina : finding the limits of social networks / Elizabeth Fussell ; "We need to get together with each other" : women's narratives of help in Katrina's displacement / Jacquelyn Litt ; The women of Renaissance village : from homes in New Orleans to a trailer park in Baker, Louisiana / Beverly J. Mason ; Twice removed : New Orleans Garifuna in the wake of Hurricane Katrina / Cynthia M. Garza ; After the flood : faith in the diaspora / Pamela Jenkins
  • Charting a path forward / introduction by Lynn Weber. Community organizing in the Katrina diaspora : race, gender, and the case of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund / Rachel E. Luft.

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