Title: Displaced : life in the Katrina diaspora /
Authors: Weber, Lynn.; Peek, Lori A.; Social Science Research Council (U.S.).
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Survivors; Disasters; Cyclonic Storms; 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.; United States; United States
Abstract: 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.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.
Contents: 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.