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| Title: | Internal Displacement and Social Marginalisation in Southern Africa |
| Author: | Rodgers, Graeme |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | Africanus |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 131-141 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | resettlement social inequality human rights Urbanization and Migration Development and Technology Politics and Government Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) |
| Abstract: | The problem of internal displacement raises questions over how international responses to this phenomenon may accommodate diverse regional experiences. In the post-Cold War, postapartheid era, southern Africa currently appears to be well positioned to address the long-standing negative effects of large-scale internal displacement, certain exceptions notwithstanding. This article starts with a brief consideration of the 'Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement', presented to the UN Secretary-General in 1998. It then shows how, in practice, the link between development-induced displacement and the violation of human rights may be more socially complex than a simple cause and effect, especially when considered in the longer term. This is done on the basis of a review of some of the more prominent forms of forced resettlement in southern Africa: villlagization, large dams, mining-induced displacement, conservation-induced displacement, and urban renewal schemes. The review suggests that displaced populations in southern Africa remain at risk of being propelled into long-term processes of marginalization. The experience of displacement may also entrench risks of future displacement, which are sometimes realized in the name of 'development'. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
