Displaced

Life in the Katrina Diaspora

AvLynn Weber,Lori Peek

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina’s landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. Katrina survivors eventually scattered across all fifty states, and tens of thousands still remain displaced. Some are desperate to return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Others have chosen to make their homes elsewhere. Still others found a way to return home but were unable to stay due to the limited availability of social services, educational opportunities, health care options, and affordable housing.The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced. Drawing on research in thirteen communities in seven states across the country, the contributors describe the struggles that evacuees have faced in securing life-sustaining resources and rebuilding their lives. They also recount the impact that the displaced have had on communities that initially welcomed them and then later experienced “Katrina fatigue” as the ongoing needs of evacuees strained local resources. Displaced reveals that Katrina took a particularly heavy toll on households headed by low-income African American women who lost the support provided by local networks of family and friends. It also shows the resilience and resourcefulness of Katrina evacuees who have built new networks and partnered with community organizations and religious institutions to create new lives in the diaspora.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Katrina Bookshelf
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9780292737648

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lynn Weber, Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, has for thirty years been a leader in developing the field of intersectionality-examining the nexus between race, class, gender, and other dimensions of social inequality. Her current work focuses on revealing inequalities in the process of recovery from disaster and in health outcomes.Lori Peek, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, also serves as Associate Chair of the Social Science Research Council Task Force on Katrina and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast. She has published widely on vulnerable populations in disaster and is the author of Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Bonnie Thornton DillAcknowledgments1. Documenting Displacement: An Introduction (Lynn Weber and Lori Peek)2. The Research Network (Lynn Weber)Section I. Receiving Communities and Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina Introduction by Lee M. Miller3. They Call It "Katrina Fatigue": Displaced Families and Discrimination in Colorado (Lori Peek)4. The Basement of Extreme Poverty: Katrina Survivors and Poverty Programs (Laura Lein, Ron Angel, Julie Beausoleil, and Holly Bell)5. Living through Displacement: Housing Insecurity among Low-Income Evacuees (Jessica W. Pardee)6. When Demand Exceeds Supply: Disaster Response and the Southern Political Economy (Lynn Weber)7. Katrina Evacuee Reception in Rural East Texas: Rethinking Disaster "Recovery" (Lee M. Miller)8. Permanent Temporariness: Displaced Children in Louisiana (Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek)Section II. Social Networks among Katrina's Displaced Introduction by Jacquelyn Litt9. Help from Family, Friends, and Strangers during Hurricane Katrina: Finding the Limits of Social Networks (Elizabeth Fussell)10. "We need to get together with each other": Women's Narratives of Help in Katrina's Displacement (Jacquelyn Litt)11. The Women of Renaissance Village: From Homes in New Orleans to a Trailer Park in Baker, Louisiana (Beverly J. Mason)12. Twice Removed: New Orleans Garifuna in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (Cynthia Garza)13. After the Flood: Faith in the Diaspora (Pamela Jenkins)Section III. Charting a Path Forward Introduction by Lynn Weber14. Community Organizing in the Katrina Diaspora: Race, Gender, and the Case of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund (Rachel E. Luft)Author BiosIndex