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Challenging the Prevailing Paradigm of Displacement and Resettlement: Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, Solutions

Development-caused forced displacement and involuntary resettlement has increased exponentially in recent years, making it one of the top problems on the international development agenda. In response, 22 anthropologists and other social scientists and resettlement researchers collaborated on a book volume recently released by Routledge - Challenging the Prevailing Paradigm of Displacement and Resettlement: Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, Solutions (Michael Cernea and Julie Maldonado, eds). This book challenges existing weak policies and dysfunctional practices, and proposes a robust set of solutions to improve the performance of resettlement policies and to tackle injustices and violations. At a time when governments, development agencies and universities worldwide are urgently seeking solutions, this book will be of interest to development practitioners, students, and researchers of international development, sociology, political science and economics.