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Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: Risk Management or Social Protection?

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Forced Displacement

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Irrespective of the regional setting and cause, all forms of displacement result in considerable disruption and loss of assets for both the individual and the collective, with greater likelihood of socio-economic impoverishment and reduced access to rights entitlements (Colson 2003; Crisp 1999; Harrell-Bond 1986; Mehta and Gupte 2003; Morvaridi 2004a; Oliver-Smith 1991). Although it is now established that displaced people face additional challenges in a new environment, living day to day with uncertainties around their survival, most conventional analyses have been concerned with physical resettlement and the livelihood restoral of people displaced as a result of conflict or large development projects, whether as refugees or internally displaced people (IDPs). There has been relatively little critical reflection on how policy frameworks can deliver the rights and entitlements of forced migrants, including who should be obliged to protect them and the relevance of individual agency, which are the core concerns of this volume.1

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Morvaridi, B. (2008). Rights and Development-Induced Displacement: Risk Management or Social Protection?. In: Grabska, K., Mehta, L. (eds) Forced Displacement. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583009_3

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