The Volta Resettlement Experience

Resettlement--the Last Phase.

In his last budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced as part of his plans the rehabilitation of derelict sites. That reminded me that the term 'rehabilitation' which we have come to use in medicine, is probably. quite inappropriate, becaume it really hints at derelict or down-and-out human beings. It is not really a description appropriate to the resettlement of the sick or injured man...

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Reservoir resettlement in China: past experience and the Three Gorges Dam

This paper reviews involuntary resettlement resulting from dam-building, which has been ignored relative to the dominant focus of migration research in China, rural to urban migration. Reservoir resettlement in China has a long history, often of misery and hardship for those displaced. Relocatees affected by the Three Gorges Project (1994– 2009) on the Yangtze River face a similar situation. In...

Refugee Resettlement Housing Scout

According to the United States High Commission for Refugees (UNHCr), there are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, 21.5 million of them being refugees. This has led to an unprecedented refugee crisis which has led countries to accept refugee families and to resettle them. Diverse agencies are helping refugees coming to US to resettle and start their new life in the countr...

Women, resettlement and desistance

With the numbers of women imprisoned increasing across Western jurisdictions over the last 15 or so years, so too have the numbers of women returning to the community following a period in custody. Despite increasing policy attention in the UK and elsewhere to prisoner resettlement, women’s experiences on release from prison have received limited empirical and policy attention. Drawing upon int...