Population recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: exploring the potential role of stage migration in migration systems

Taking the Orleans Parish as case study over a 5-year period, between the start of the post-Katrina period (2006) and each subsequent year (2007, 2008,2009,2010), the study shows how population displacement from and, ultimately, recovery in a disaster-affected area ripples through migration systems, both directly and indirectly, redistributing populations as a means of coping with and recovering from a disaster’s impacts.