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The political economy of internally displaced people and rural transformation: A case study of Gash-Barka Province in Eritrea.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The political economy of internally displaced people and rural transformation: A case study of Gash-Barka Province in Eritrea./
Author:	Gubsa, Yohannes Weldemariam.
Description:	380 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Helga Leitner; Abdi I. Samatar.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-03A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3256866

The political economy of internally displaced people and rural transformation: A case study of Gash-Barka Province in Eritrea.
Gubsa, Yohannes Weldemariam.

The political economy of internally displaced people and rural transformation: A case study of Gash-Barka Province in Eritrea. - 380 p.

Advisers: Helga Leitner; Abdi I. Samatar.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2007.

This study explores the long trajectory of internally-displaced people (IDPs) and rural transformation in Eritrea from the Italian and British colonial period to the Ethiopian rule and continuing through the contemporary post-independence period. The study challenges the Malthusian and Boserupian rhetoric on the cause-effect relationships between displacement and environmental deterioration and argues for an assessment of the complex global, regional, national, and local forces that have shaped the lives of IDPs and the rural environments of Eritrea. It takes a structurationist perspective that emphasizes the interdependence between agency and structures operating on multiple geographic scales. By employing a multi-sited approach linking conditions in areas of origin and destination, this study contributes to a better understanding of the processes of displacement and resettlement. The Gash-Barka province, a major area of reception of IDPs, is used as a case study through which the embeddedness of the experiences of displacement, and the rural transformations associated with IDP settlement are examined. The study demonstrates that IDP livelihoods and the dimensions of socio-economic, and environmental changes in host areas are shaped by policies and actions of governments and supra-national forces, by local politics, and differences in ethnicity, culture, class, gender relations, migration histories and actions of IDPs as individuals and as groups of people. Environmental and socio-economic transformations are neither exclusively negative nor positive. Positive changes such as improvements in farming practices and proliferation of trade and expansion of urban amenities attest to the prominent role of IDPs in transforming their host areas, although not all IDPs benefit from these positive transformations in the same way and to the same degree. On the other hand, negative ramifications of displacement such as marginalization and impoverishment of large numbers of IDPs as well as the ensuing environmental degradation processes cannot simply be explained by IDPs' actions. Rather, they must be understood within the context of the historical, economic, and political threats propelling the IDP crisis itself. Based on the study's findings, suggestions are provided to address critical policy issues relevant to the resolution of the displacement and rural development problems in Eritrea and other developing countries.Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

The political economy of internally displaced people and rural transformation: A case study of Gash-Barka Province in Eritrea.
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