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Weathering Katrina, culture and recovery among Vietnamese Americans, Mark J. VanLandingham

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Weathering Katrina

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Mark J. VanLandingham

culture and recovery among Vietnamese Americans

"In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The principal Vietnamese American enclave was a remote, low-to-moderate income area that flooded badly. Many residents arrived decades earlier as refugees from the Vietnam War and were marginally fluent in English. Yet, despite these poor odds of success, the Vietnamese made a surprisingly strong comeback in the wake of the flood. While some commentators initially attributed this resilience to fairly simple explanations such as strong leadership or to a set of vague cultural strengths characteristic of the Vietnamese and other "model minorities," Mark VanLandingham shows that a broad sete of factorsa fostered their rapid recovery. By carefully defining and disentangling the elements that enabled the swift recovery of the Vietnamese in New Orleans, Weathering Katrina enriches our understanding of this understudied immigrant community and of why some groups fare better than others after a major catastrophe like Katrina."--, Provided by Publisher

Introduction: why are the Vietnamese doing so well? -- Who are these people? A brief history of Vietnamese New Orleanians (in collaboration with Hongyun Fu) -- Data, methods, and research strategy -- Why are the Vietnamese doing so well? A framework and assessment of post-disaster recovery -- Why are the Vietnamese doing so well? Explaining differences in post-disaster recovery -- Why are the Vietnamese doing so well? Culture and its confounders -- Cultural and non-cultural influences on the recovery of the Vietnamese American community in post-Katrina New Orleans -- Summary and conclusions: why are the Vietnamese doing so well?