Help from family, friends, and strangers during Hurricane Katrina finding the limits of social networks

Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 150-166

  Fussell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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