Forced relocation in Burma’s former capital by Donald M Seekins

Get full text

Residents’ Perceptions of Impending Forced Relocation in Urban China by Xin Li

Subjects: Get full text

Understanding the experiences of relocatees during forced relocation in Chinese urban restructuring by Xin Li, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans

“… Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there is no systematic overview regarding how residents experience the process and its outcomes. …”
Get full text

Z předměstí na venkov: nucené přesunutí královéhradeckého obyvatelstva v důsledku výstavby pevnosti ve druhé polovině 18. století // From the oustkirts to the country: the forced relocation of the Hradec Králové population as a result of the construction of the fortress in the second half of the 18th century by Jana Vojtíšková

Subjects: Get full text

Climate Change Migration and Displacement: Learning from Past Relocations in the Pacific by Tammy Tabe

Subjects: Get full text

Conclusions by Xin Li

“… Large-scale urban redevelopment in China has been taking place for decades since the market transitions from 1978, which have caused massive forced relocation of residents (He and Wu, 2007; MOHURD, 2013). …”
Get full text

Introduction by Xin Li

“…In addition, some residents may feel increasingly ambivalent facing forced relocation as they may have both positive and negative experiences in their neighbourhoods which might make it difficult to evaluate the negative and positive influences of urban redevelopment and forced relocation before they actually relocate. …”
Get full text

The Impact of Impending Demolition on Ageing in Place in Declining Neighbourhoods in Shenyang, China by Xin Li, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans, Pingyu Zhang

“…However, urban redevelopment that includes the forced relocation of residents often makes ageing in place impossible. …”
Get full text

Neglected aspects and maladaptation to rules in low-cost housing, Malaysia: Social practices of commoning. by Au-Yong, Cheong Peng, Wang, Hong Kok, Ling, Gabriel Hoh Teck, Law, Kian Aun, Abdullahi, Bawa Chafe, Wan Abd Aziz, Wan Nor Azriyati

“…Furthermore, the forced relocation of urban squatters to unfamiliar environments comes at a heavy cost. …”
Get full text

Las nuevas tribus urbanas en Cali. Desplazamiento forzado, desterritorialización y reterritorialización by Nancy Motta Gonzalez

“…The new urban tribes of Cali. Forced relocation, deterritorialization, and reterritorialization Abstract This document is the product of research on forced displacement and the resettlements which have been made in Cali, treated through distinct graduate theses from students of the Department of Geography of the Universidad del Valle. …”
Get full text

La mobilité contextuelle comme lien entre la mobilité quotidienne et la mobilité résidentielle. Du concept à la pratique by Nathalie Buchot

“…The present study on forced relocation thus demonstrates the need for combining urban planning, social and environmental approaches in policymaking.…”
Get full text

“Watching the world about them rock and sway”. Hidden Upheavals in Hisaye Yamamoto’s Short Stories by Nicolangelo Becce

“…While both short stories are characterized by a sustained use of indirection, by tracing in them allusions to that crucial event in the history of Japanese Americans which is their forced relocation during World War II, it is possible to add a deeper layer of meaning that can further testify to the emotional turmoil of the internment experience. …”
Get full text

Images and Landscape: The (Dis)ordering of Colonial Territory (Quito in the Eighteenth Century) by Carmen Fernández-Salvador

“…Native actors physically manipulated Marian images in times of conflict, moving them around or apprehending them either to legitimize their desertion of colonial settlements or to resist forced relocation. In both the early colonial period and in the eighteenth century, the key strategy of shaping sacred landscapes was implemented in both Andean and Christian traditions.…”
Get full text

Climate Change, Mining and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge in Australia by Tony Birch

“…Other, more gradual changes, such as rising sea levels in the north of Australia, will have long-term negative consequences on communities, including the possibility of forced relocation. Climate change is also a historical phenomenon, and Indigenous communities hold a depth of knowledge of climate change and its impact on local ecologies of benefit to the wider community when policies to deal with an increasingly warmer world are considered. …”
Get full text

Family history and attitudes toward out-groups: evidence from the European refugee crisis by Dinas, E, Fouka, V, Schläpfer, A

“…Building on theories of group identity, we show that a family history of forced relocation leaves an imprint on future generations and can be activated to increase sympathy toward refugees. …”

Healing Trauma and Reasserting Identity through Remembrance in Joanne Fedler’s The Dreamcloth by Abdullah Md Abu Shahid

“…In the novel, Maya’s memories of her unrequited lesbian relationship with her beloved Rochel, oppression by the traditional structures of her family and Jewish community, her forced marriage with Yankel, and her being raped by him are responsible for her trauma on a personal level, whereas her forced relocation to South Africa in order to flee from the Holocaust is responsible for her trauma on a communal level. …”
Get full text

Defusing Controversial Topics: Visual Semiotics in an Atlantic Canadian Textbook by Tracy Whalen

“…It then analy-ses the ideational work of the visuals and suggests that conceptual (and not narrative) representations invite a generic rather than specific understand-ing of, in this case, forced relocation in Newfoundland. Finally, the paper studies the organizational choices of visuals in the book and, focussing on the before and after picture, proposes a new visual phenomenon-the visual ergative-for understanding how visual selections can sidestep important questions of agency and power. …”
Get full text

A historical perspective on malaria control in Brazil by Sean Michael Griffing, Pedro Luiz Tauil, Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Luciana Silva-Flannery

“…The early history of Brazilian malaria and its control was powered by colonisation by Europeans and the forced relocation of Africans as slaves. Internal migration brought malaria to many regions in Brazil where, given suitableAnopheles mosquito vectors, it thrived. …”
Get full text

Significations accordées par des jeunes et des enseignants inuit à leur vécu familial, scolaire et communautaire au Nunavik by Tatiana Garakani

“…Aboriginal families have suffered transformations and long-term disruptions following the nefarious effects of colonialism, forced relocation and residential schools. Despite many efforts and considerable steps forward, the aftermath is still felt in communities.Based on participatory research in Nunavik, we examine the expressions of family, community, the Inuktitut language and Inuit culture as well as of the topic of identity and visions of the future in the statements of Inuit students and teachers. …”
Get full text

Beijing from Below - Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital‘s Center Author: Harriet Evans by Britta Schmitz

“…In the early 2000s, the possible former glory of the buildings which had been teahouses, brothels, or merchant homes was long gone - the district became an ever-worsening eyesore to the municipal government, leading to a complete makeover, and consequently to forced relocation of most of the inhabitants. The author, Harriet Evans, visited the hutong (alleyway) and surrounding district regularly from 2007 to 2014, and the results of her anthropological fieldwork are gathered in this book published in 2020 by Duke University Press.…”
Get full text