ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights how disasters can have greater impacts on particular groups where relationships, resources and access to information play a critical role in mitigating negative impacts. Bradshaw acknowledges that disasters can reveal and exacerbate particular societal fault lines and fissures that exist within and across particular group identities and locations. The chapter focuses on the interplay of the everyday and the extraordinary experiences occurring before, during and long after a catastrophe has occurred. It presents a case study of refugees affected by the Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand to deepen these understandings. In particular, this study demonstrates the intersectional, chronological and transnational dimensions of belonging in disaster contexts that powerfully inform people's pathways to, and opportunities for, recovery. These findings are then related to the broader global implications of DRR with forcibly displaced populations. The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) defines recovery as the restoration and improvement of livelihoods, living conditions and facilities of disaster-affected communities.
