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PART 1
RESETTLEMENT DUE TO POLITICAL UPHEAVAL
PART 2
RESETTLEMENT DUE TO NATURAL DISASTERS
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PART 3
RESETTLEMENT AS AN ELEMENT OF PLANNED CHANGE
PART 4
CONCLUSION
Figures
2.1 Zambia and neighboring states (map) ••••••••••••••••••••••••. 18
2.2 A rapidly constructed refugee village •••••.•.•••••.•••.••••• 25
3.1 A refugee woman conducts a spirit possession ritual
to cure a settler woman ..................................... 44
4.1 These camp facilities were set up on Guam to receive
the influx of refugees from Vietnam in 1975 ••••••••.•.••.••• 51
5.1 Simplified model of immigrant adaptation ••••••..••.•••••••.. 80
6.1 Peru and the Department of Ancash (rnap) .•••••••••••••••••••• 87
6.2 Existing cities and relocation sites in the
Callej6n de Huaylas (map) ••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 91
6.3 The provisional housing, originally designed to last
two years, was still in use four years later •••••.••••••.••• 95
8.1 Belize (map) ...••••.•...••.••..••..•••....••••••••••.•..•.. 124
11.1 Nambiquara (Nagarottu) woman and children, 1979 ..••.••••••• 181
11.2 The Nambiquara region (map) .••••••.••.•.•..••••.••••••••.•. 185
11.3 Village movements, 1969-1977 (map) .••.•••••••...••.••.••••• 191
Tables
2.1 Numbers of refugees in Africa (1976) •.•••••.•••••••.••••••.• 16
2.2 Shifts in village population 1971 to 1972 •••••.•••••.•••••.• 20
2.3 Angolan refugees in Zambia (year-end totals) ..•••.••.....•.. 24
2.4 Migration status of settlement population (1971) •...•..•.••• 27
9.1 Families affected by Group Areas Act (by end of 1971) •••••• 149
14.1 Percent distribution of sample by site and Gomez Class •••.• 255
14.2 Distribution of malnutrition in the samples •••.•••••••••••• 255
14.3 Diversity of G6mez Classifications ..•••••••.•..••...••.••.• 255
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Acknowledgments
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Involuntary Migration
and Resettlement
1
INTRODUCTION
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2
Influenced by Determined by
Society Society
Influenced
by Migrants Refugees
Society
Decision to Move
to a New Place
Determined
by Allocatees Slaves
Society
PERSPECTIVE
OUTLINE
affected people do not migrate. Some stressors are cyclical and may
be anticipated, such as hurricanes in the Gulf Coast and the Carib-
bean (Chapter 8). The great variation in rapidity of onset of stress
is clear when the gradual perception of drought over years (Chapter
7) is compared with the almost simultaneous threat and impact of an
earthquake and avalanche (Chapter 6). Some stressors--wars,
droughts, and some disasters--affect entire regions; others are more
selective and affect only specific localities. Similarly, some
stressors affect whole populations (entire ethnic groups, as in the
cases presented in Chapters 11 and 12); others apply only to particu-
lar minority groups within a relatively undisturbed larger society
(Chapters 9 and 13). The severity of the stress and the urgency of
action can vary from acute situations, such as earthquakes, hurri-
canes, or wars, to cases of gradual, increasing stress applied by
political pressures in which initial responses take the form of
attempts at negotiation to forestall resettlement action (Chapters
10, 13, and 14).
Each study focuses on the perceptions and actions of one or more
specific ethnic or community populations. The laboratory is global,
as ecological and cultural factors present important variations.
Chapters 2, 3, 7, 9, and 12 describe situations in various parts of
East and Southern Africa; Chapters 6, 11, and 13 report on South
America; Chapters 8 and 14 on Central America; Chapters 5 and 10 on
North America; and Chapter 4 describes the fundamentally liminal
location, "Halfway to Nowhere," of refugees in transit on Guam. Four
of the cases are urban and eight are rural; du Toit in Chapter 9
covers both contexts.
A wide variety of sociocultural contexts and sociopolitical
levels are described: Khera and Mariella (Chapter 10) and Price
(Chapter 11) deal with reservations for indigenous populations;
Merryman (Chapter 7) with the settlement of nomadic pastoralists;
Hansen, Spring, Reining, and Partridge, Brown, and Nugent (Chapters
2, 3, 12, and 14) with the resettlement of peasants and small
farmers; Oliver-Smith, Palacio, du Toit, and Perlman (Chapters 6, 8,
9, and 13) with urban resettlement; and Morrison and Moos (Chapter 4)
and Pisarowicz and Tosher (Chapter 5} deal with essentially the same
mixed set of Indochinese people in a camp and a city respectively.
All of the cases presented in this volume involve forms of
successful, if difficult, adaptation to forced resettlement or its
threat. This is by no means to suggest that the resettlement pro-
grams adhered to any absolute standard of fairness or justice, but
rather that once faced with the facts of resettlement, regardless of
their harshness, the groups in question suffered through at least the
initial stages of the resettlement process and adapted or are
adapting to their changed conditions. Although the cases do speak
for themselves, certain types of responses are not shown. Resistance
to relocation was seen in a number of cases, but it was successful in
only one (Chapter 6). In that case, it is noteworthy that strategy
was greatly affected by the "politics of inertia" rather than armed
resistance in the form of military or guerrilla tactics. Similarly,
there are no cases of severe social disorganization, resembling the
tragic situations of the Ik (Turnbull 1972) or the Kaingang (Henry
1964) in which resettlement or contact resulted in conflict, social
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