Content Details
Social and Economic Impacts of Outer Continental Shelf Activity on Individuals and Families, Volume I: Final Report
- Branch
- Executive
- Category
- Executive Agency Publications
- SuDoc Class Number
- I 72.
- Government Author
- Interior Department, Minerals Management Service
- Personal Author
- Austin D; Coelho K; Gardner A; Higgins R; McGuire T
- Series Title
- BOEM Environmental Studies
- Publication Title
- Social and Economic Impacts of Outer Continental Shelf Activity on Individuals and Families, Volume I: Final Report
- Date Issued
- 2002
- Subject
- Socio-economic and Infrastructure
Employment & Income
Morgan City; New Iberia; Family Impacts; Community Impacts
- Obligation Number
- 1435-01-98-CT-30897
- Geographic Scope
- Gulf of Mexico
- Report Number
- 2002-022
- CSE Reference
- Austin D, Coelho K, Gardner A, Higgins R, McGuire T (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ). 2002. Social and economic impacts of outer continental shelf activity on individuals and families, volume I: final report. New Orleans (LA): US Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service. 308 p. Obligation No.: 1435-01-98-CT-30897. Report No.: OCS Study MMS 2002-022. URL: https://espis.boem.gov/Final%20Reports/3062.pdf
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of OCS-related work and its impacts on the lifestyles of individuals and families and on the communities in which they live. This study was conducted within two parishes of Acadiana, a 22-parish area in southern Louisiana named for the immigrants from Acadia in Nova Scotia who settled there in the mid- 1700’s. Though southern Louisiana residents trace their origins to numerous groups besides the Acadians, Cajun often becomes a gloss for local white residents. In contemporary Louisiana, many other ethnic groups, including Vietnamese, Laotians, African Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, and Houma and Chitimacha Indians, are represented in both the oil and gas industry and in the communities of the region. The study focused on two communities, Morgan City and New Iberia. New Iberia and Morgan City were selected for study for a number of reasons. Both are involved in diverse activities associated with the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas from the OCS. Petroleum workers and petroleum families populate them. New Iberia is a sugarcane town that acquired an oil sector. Morgan City is a shrimping and commercial port on the Atchafalaya River that was strategically poised to become a prominent fabricating, service, and supply center for the oil and gas industry. Also, the communities, with populations of 30,000 and 12,000 respectively, are amenable in size for ethnographic study which, in its broadest sense, endeavors to understand the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of communities.