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‘Cajun Navy’ volunteers who participate in search-and-rescue operations after hurricanes are forming long-lasting organizations

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par Kyle Breen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M International University
J. Carlee Purdum, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Houston

The volunteers who take part in search-and-rescue operations and then support disaster survivors belong to organizations that have become more formal and established over the past decade. That’s what we found after spending more than four years volunteering alongside eight of these groups to better understand their role and the motivations of the people who participate in these efforts.

We did this research as part…

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