Social vulnerability and migration in the wake of

disaster: the case of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Candice A. Myers - Tim Slack - Joachim Singelmann

 • Relación existente entre desastres naturales y la migración posterior
de los grupos espacialmente vulnerables afectados por estos eventos.

Imagen 1. Huracan Katrina. Fuente: GOES 12 Satellite, NASA,NOAA Imagen 1. Huracan Rita. Fuente: GOES 12 Satellite, NASA,NOAA
Fecha 29 Agosto 2005 Fecha 24 Septiembre 2005

‘‘migration, whether permanent or temporary, has always been a traditional response or survival strategy of people
confronting the prospect, impact or aftermath of disasters.’’ Oliver-Smith (2006)
Desastre:
• ‘‘the routines of collective social units are seriously disrupted and when
unplanned courses of action have to be undertaken to cope with the crisis.’’
Quarantelli (2000, p. 682)
• ‘‘disasters are fundamentally social phenomena; they involve the intersection
of the physical process of a hazard agent with the local characteristics of
everyday life in a place and larger social and economic forces that structure
that realm.’’ Bolin (1998, p. 27)
• ‘‘there is no such thing as a natural disaster. In every phase and aspect of a
disaster—causes, vulnerability, preparedness, results and response, and
reconstruction—the contours of disaster and the difference between who lives
and who dies is to a greater or lesser extent a social calculus.’’ Smith (2006)