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Uprooting has to do with one of the fundamental properties of human
life-the need to change-and with the personal and societal mecha
nisms for dealing with that need. As with the more general problems
of change, uprooting can be a time of human disaster and
desolation, or a time of adaptation and growth into new capacities.
The special quality of uprooting is that the need to change is
faced at a time of separation from accustomed social, cultural, and
environ mental support systems. It is this separation from familiar
supports that either renders the uprooted vulnerable to the
destructive conse quences of change, or creates freedoms for their
evolution into new and constructive patterns of life. Whether the
outcomes will be destruc tive or constructive will be determined by
the forces at work: the nature and power of the uprooting forces
versus the personal and societal capacities for coping with them.
Uprooting events are so widespread as to be compared with the major
rites of life, but with the difference that dislocation is
involved. Uprooting reaches from self-imposed movements such as
rural-to urban migration, running away, and traveling abroad for
schooling, to natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes,
political oppres sion, and war. The impacts vary from the need to
adapt to. a new culture for an interim period of study to the
desolating consequences of the total loss of family, friends, home,
and country."
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