Church-based social capital, networks and geographical scale: Katrina evacuation, relocation, and recovery in a New Orleans Vietnamese American community

Geoforum

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1333-1346

  Airriess, Christopher A ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Leong, Karen J ^b   Chen, Angela Chia Chen ^c   Keith, Verna M ^d  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Geographical scale; Hurricane Katrina; Social capital and networks; Vietnamese Americans

Indexed keywords

ASIAN IMMIGRANT; CHURCH ROLE; CULTURAL IDENTITY; ETHNIC GROUP; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; RELOCATION; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORK;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42649124311     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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