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Resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana: a preliminary study Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS NATURAL DISASTERS MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH This preliminary study investigates human resilience in the city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, eighteen months after Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi delta region. The findings of this preliminary study concur with previous reports in the literature on the deleterious impact of displacement on individual and collective resilience to disasters. Relevant insight gleaned from the qualitative data gathered during the course of administering the SOC-13 scale compensate for the limitations of the small sample size as they draw attention to the importance of the study participants' sources of social support. Possible avenues for further research are outlined. Additional key words: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans - Louisiana, Resilience, Sense of Coherence. 2026-09-30T11:44:14Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33352662.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Resilience_in_post-Katrina_New_Orleans_Louisiana_a_preliminary_study/33352662 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0