Everything about Forced Migration totally explained
Forced migration refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their
home or home
region. It often connotes violent coercion, and is used interchangeably with the terms "displacement" or
forced displacement. A specific form of forced migration is
population transfer, which is a coherent policy to move unwanted persons, perhaps as an attempt at
ethnic cleansing. Someone who has experienced forced migration is a "forced migrant" or "
displaced person".
Forced migration has accompanied religious and political persecution, as well as war, throughout human history but has only become a topic of serious study and discussion relatively recently. This increased attention is the result of greater ease of travel, allowing
displaced persons to flee to nations far removed from their homes, the creation of an international legal structure of human rights, and the realizations that the destabilizing effects of forced migration, especially in parts of
Africa, the
Middle East, south and central
Asia, ripple out well beyond the immediate region.
Development-induced displacement is a subset of forced migration. Such displacement is the forcing of communities and individuals out of their homes, often also their homelands, for the purposes of
economic development. It has been historically associated with the construction of dams for
hydroelectric power and
irrigation purposes but also appears due to many other activities, such as
mining. The most well-known examples of development-induced displacement is a result of the construction of the
Three Gorges Dam in
China, and also the previous
German expulsions.
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