Leaving Chicago for Iowa's "fields of Opportunity": Community dispossession, rootlessness, and the quest for somewhere to "be OK"

Human Organization

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 275-284

  Keene, Danya E ^a   Padilla, Mark B ^b   Geronimus, Arline T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicago; Iowa; low income housing; rootlessness; social support networks; stigma

Indexed keywords

AFFORDABLE HOUSING; AFRICAN AMERICAN; LOW INCOME HOUSING; MIGRATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN SOCIETY;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956493330     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.69.3.gr851617m015064m     Document Type: Article

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