Moving People in Ethiopia: Development, Displacement and the State

by Alula Pankhurst and Francois Piguet

Alula Pankhurst (Editor), Francois Piguet (Editor), Ayalew Gebre, Behailu Abebe, David Turton, Feleke Tadele, Gebre Yntiso, Getachew Kassa, Kassahun Berhanu, Kassahun Kebede, Lewis Aptekar, Melese Getu, Michael Cernea, Taddesse Berisso, Wolde-Selassie Abbute, and Yisak Tafere

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One consequence of development has been that large numbers of people have been displaced from their land - the editors provide an analysis of such population displacements in Ethiopia in the context of other causes of movement, such as drought and conflict.

Development worldwide has increasingly involved displacement. Ethiopia is no exception; population displacement resulting from development as well as conflict, drought and conservation has been on the increase since the 1960s. Therecent history of conflict in the Horn of Africa has led to large-scale population movements of refugees, returnees, internally displaced groups and demobilized soldiers. The context of drought and food insecurity in the mid-1980s and again in the early 2000s added a further rationale and impetus for organizing state-led resettlement programmes.
This book brings together for the first time studies of the different types of development, conflict and drought induced displacement in Ethiopia, and analyses the conceptual, methodological and experiential similarities, overlaps and differences between these various forms.

ALULA PANKHURST is an independent researcher anda member of the Forum for Social Studies; FRANCOIS PIGUET is a lecturer on the masters course of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action at the Geneva University

Published in association with the Centre Francais des Etudes Ethiopiennes (CFEE)
  • ISBN10 1847016138
  • ISBN13 9781847016133
  • Publish Date 21 May 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 7 June 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint James Currey
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 344
  • Language English