Studying Displacement: New Networks, Lessons Learned
Studying Displacement: New Networks, Lessons Learned
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研究流离失所：新网络、经验教训
DOI：
10.1111/soin.12053
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Lynn Weber
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作者：
L. Peek;A. Fothergill;J. Pardee;Lynn Weber
在这个特别部分的开篇，凯·埃里克森认为，卡特里娜飓风很可能长期以来仍然是现代历史上最具说服力的灾难事件，因为它揭示了我们社会的一切。埃里克森，以及史蒂夫·克罗尔·史密斯和雷切尔·马德森（他们的文章在这篇文章之后），表达了一种特殊的紧迫性，我们需要了解这场灾难对那些受卡特里娜飓风破坏性大风和致命洪水影响最严重的人的日常生活造成的后果。这篇文章描述了一个努力，以文件的经验，人们流离失所的卡特里娜飓风。飓风和随之而来的洪水最终迫使墨西哥湾沿岸约150万人撤离。虽然确切的数字永远不会知道，但在这一领域工作的大多数研究人员和从业人员现在都认为，这场灾难导致了成千上万人的永久流离失所。长期流离失所的人中有不成比例的是少数民族，包括截至2010年人口普查统计尚未返回新奥尔良的119，000多名非洲裔美国人。在此，我们介绍我们的小组-“卡特里娜”飓风造成的流离失所者问题研究网络-所作的努力。作为一个网络，我们的目标是（1）了解我们所能了解的卡特里娜飓风幸存者的经历，（2）考虑人们登陆的地方-有时是选择，有时是环境的力量-为流离失所的儿童和成年人塑造了各种结果。就像社会学研究这个特殊部分的其他贡献一样，我们不太关注我们的具体发现，而更多地关注我们实际上是如何完成我们的研究的。我们的希望是，通过分享一些关于我们自己的过程的想法，并通过描述我们的项目如何适应卡特里娜工作组的更大的保护伞下，读者可能会考虑如何这种类型的合作社会科学工作可以提高自己的学术实践。
In the opening piece in this special section, Kai Erikson argues that Katrina is likely to long remain the most telling disaster event in modern history because of all that it revealed about our society. Erikson, as well as Steve Kroll-Smith and Rachel Madsen (whose article follows this one), articulate a special kind of urgency in our need to understand the consequences of this catastrophe in the daily lives of those who were most affected by Katrina’s devastating winds and deadly floodwaters. This article describes an effort to document the experiences of people displaced by Katrina. The hurricane and the flooding that followed ultimately forced the evacuation of about 1.5 million people from across the Gulf Coast. And although the exact numbers will never be known, most researchers and practitioners working in this field now agree that the disaster led to the permanent dislocation of tens of thousands of people. A disproportionate number of those who were displaced over the long term were racial minorities, including over 119,000 African American residents who had not returned to New Orleans as of the 2010 Census count. Here, we describe the efforts of our group, the Research Network on Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Our goals as a network were to (1) learn what we could about the experiences of displaced Katrina survivors, and (2) consider the ways that the places where people landed—sometimes by choice, other times by force of circumstance—shaped various outcomes for displaced children and adults. Like the other contributions in this special section of Sociological Inquiry, we focus less on our specific findings and more on how we actually went about completing our research studies. Our hope is that by sharing some thoughts about our own process—and by describing how our projects fit under the larger umbrella of the Katrina Task Force—that readers might consider how this type of collaborative social science work could enhance their own scholarly practice.