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Church-based social capital, networks and geographical scale: Katrina evacuation, relocation, and recovery in a New Orleans Vietnamese American community |
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| Authors: | Christopher A Airriess Wei Li Karen J Leong Angela Chia-Chen Chen Verna M Keith |
| Institution: | a Department of Geography, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA b Asian Pacific American Studies Program and School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA c Asian Pacific American Studies Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA d College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA e Department of Sociology and Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA |
| Abstract: | This research examines the role of social capital and networks to explain the evacuation, relocation, and recovery experiences of a Vietnamese American community in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. As the single largest community institution, the parish church’s complex bonding and bridging social capital and networks proved particularly critical in part because of its historically based ontological security. The process of evacuation, but especially relocation and recovery, was dependent on deploying co-ethnic social capital and networks at a variety of geographical scales. Beyond the local or community scale, extra-local, regional, and national scales of social capital and networks reproduced a spatially redefined Vietnamese American community. Part of the recovery process included constructing discursive place-based collective-action frames to successfully contest a nearby landfill that in turn engendered social capital and networks crossing ethnic boundaries to include the extra-local African American community. Engaging social capital and networks beyond the local geographical scale cultivated a Vietnamese American community with an emergent post-Katrina cultural and political identity. |
| Keywords: | Hurricane Katrina Vietnamese Americans Social capital and networks Geographical scale Community |
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