Some ten million people worldwide are displaced or resettled
every year, due to development projects, such as the construction
of dams, irrigation schemes, urban development, transport,
conservation or mining projects. The results have usually been very
negative for most of those people who have to move, as well as for
other people in the area, such as host populations. People are
often left socially and institutionally disrupted and economically
worse-off, with the environment also suffering as a result of the
introduction of infrastructure and increased crowding in the areas
to which people had to move.
The contributors to this volume argue that there is a
complexity, and a tension, inherent in trying to reconcile enforced
displacement of people with the subsequent creation of a
socio-economically viable and sustainable environment. Only when
these are squarely confronted, will it be possible to adequately
deal with the problems and to improve resettlement policies.
Chris de Wet is Professor and Head of the Department of
Anthropology at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, where
he has been on the faculty for twenty-five years. His research for
the last twenty years has concentrated on politically- and
development-induced resettlement. From 1998 to 2002, he coordinated
a project on development-induced displacement and resettlement for
the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, on which
this collection is based.
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