TY - JOUR
T1 - (Un)natural disaster
T2 - vulnerability, long-distance displacement, and the extended geography of neighborhood distress and attainment after Katrina
AU - Graif, Corina
N1 - Funding Information:
I am very grateful to Mary Waters, Jean Rhodes, Chris Paxson, Lori Hunter, Jenny Van Hook, Michelle Frisco, and Barry Lee for valuable feedback and support for this project. I thank Andy Gladfelter for research assistance. I thank Mary Waters and the Harvard RISK project team for providing access to the data. I am also grateful for support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program at the University of Michigan, the Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University (NICHD award # R24 HD041025), and the National Science Foundation. The contents of this paper are my own views and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of NSF, NICHD, the U.S. Government, or of any of the other supporting institutions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - After Hurricane Katrina, socioeconomically vulnerable populations were slow to return to their poor and segregated pre-disaster neighborhoods. Yet, very little is known about the quality of their post-disaster neighborhoods. While vulnerable groups rarely escape neighborhood poverty, some Katrina evacuees showed signs of neighborhood improvement. The current study investigates this puzzle and the significance of long-distance moves for neighborhood change among participants in the Resilience in the Survivors of Katrina Project. Seven hundred low-income, mostly minority mothers in community college in New Orleans before Katrina were tracked across the country a year and a half later. The findings show that respondents’ immediate and extended neighborhoods and metropolitan areas after Katrina were less disadvantaged, less organizationally isolated, and more racially and ethnically diverse compared to their pre-hurricane environments, and to the environments of those staying or returning home. Counterfactual analyses showed that more than within-neighborhood changes over time, between-neighborhood mobility and long-distance migration decreased respondents’ exposures to distress in their neighborhood, extended geographic area, and metropolitan area.
AB - After Hurricane Katrina, socioeconomically vulnerable populations were slow to return to their poor and segregated pre-disaster neighborhoods. Yet, very little is known about the quality of their post-disaster neighborhoods. While vulnerable groups rarely escape neighborhood poverty, some Katrina evacuees showed signs of neighborhood improvement. The current study investigates this puzzle and the significance of long-distance moves for neighborhood change among participants in the Resilience in the Survivors of Katrina Project. Seven hundred low-income, mostly minority mothers in community college in New Orleans before Katrina were tracked across the country a year and a half later. The findings show that respondents’ immediate and extended neighborhoods and metropolitan areas after Katrina were less disadvantaged, less organizationally isolated, and more racially and ethnically diverse compared to their pre-hurricane environments, and to the environments of those staying or returning home. Counterfactual analyses showed that more than within-neighborhood changes over time, between-neighborhood mobility and long-distance migration decreased respondents’ exposures to distress in their neighborhood, extended geographic area, and metropolitan area.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11111-015-0243-6
DO - 10.1007/s11111-015-0243-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958172401
VL - 37
SP - 288
EP - 318
JO - Population and Environment
JF - Population and Environment
SN - 0199-0039
IS - 3
ER -