Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Publication Title
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Abstract
In this qualitative study of the Vietnamese American community of Biloxi, Mississippi, conducted three years after Katrina, we attended not only to individual experiences but to the relationship of individuals to their collective and social worlds. The interlocked relationship of individual and collective loss and recovery are clearly demonstrated in respondents’ narratives. The neighborhood and community of Little Saigon was significant not only as a symbolic source of identity but as a protected and familiar space of residence, livelihood, and social connections. The post-Katrina changes in the neighborhood are, in multiple ways, changing participants’ experience of and relationship to their community.
Keywords
Vietnamese Americans, community, collective loss and recovery, social ecology, phenomenology, resilience, psychosocial capacity building, place
Volume
37
Issue
3
First Page
79
Last Page
105
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Recommended Citation
Park, Yoosun; Miller, Joshua; and Van, Bao Chau, "“Everything has Changed”: Narratives of the Vietnamese American Community in Post-Katrina Mississippi" (2010). School for Social Work: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/ssw_facpubs/2
Comments
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