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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Forced Removal"”.
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Forced Removal and Social Memories in North-western Zimbabwe,c1900-2000
… study in regional history focusing on a case of forced removal that happened in the late 1950s in North-western Zimbabwe and partially on another of voluntary migration in the 1980s. Forced removal and voluntary migration, both as a process and as an event, are used here as prime entry points for …
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Challenging Notions of U.S. Citizenship: The Contributions of Mexican Americans
… to some and laws of exclusion, deportation, and forced removal for others, have embodied U.S. approaches to citizenship, and created a dichotomy between “citizen” and “alien.” This Master's Thesis will initiate a discussion and reformulation of what it means to be a citizen in the United States, …
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Temporal representation in narratives of forced removals : a narrative analysis of life story texts
… examined the life stories of three victims of forced removals. It is based on an understanding that there is much that we can learn from the lives of 'ordinary people' and that the oral medium is a rich source of understanding other aspects of society. Chapter 1 sketches the background of this …
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The development of counter-surveying as a methodology to document forced removals: case studies of District Six and Die Vlakte
Nearly 30 years post-apartheid, many victims of forced removals remain displaced, their sense of place and identity fractured. The methodology of counter-surveying, though underdeveloped, has been proposed to identify sites of forced removals and engage with affected communities. According to …
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Social Reproductive Labour: Exploring Experiences of Women in the Taxi Industry
… the history of colonialism which ensued in the forced removal of black peoples from city vicinities, to the peripheries of the city which subsequently created transportation needs to and from work. Nonetheless, post-colonialism, the nationalist elite government ensued transformation endeavours …
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Relevant, important and credible: reflections on applying anthropology in the South African land restitution process
… The people seek restitution for their forced removal from Ndabeni to Langa between 1927 and 1936. The research applied anthropological, qualitative, research methods including participant observation of the land restitution process (as manifest in the. meetings and activities of the …
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Dreams and Dust in the Black Hills: Race, Place, and National Identity in America's "Land of Promise"
… to the Black Hills. Lakotas had faced years of forced removal, colonization, disease, starvation, and the suppression of their cultural traditions and ceremonies. Despite all of this, they still found their voice through the venues of Black Hills tourism. Lakota participants in Black Hills …
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An oral history of Tramway Road and Ilford Street, Sea Point, 1930s-2001 : the production of place by race, class and gender
… form an important part of the discussion of the forced removal of the residents of the enclave in 1959-1961. Minutes of meetings and personal communication provide data on the process of restitution for Tramway Road in 1997-2001. Through this micro-study of Tramway and Ilford streets, this thesis …
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Authoritarianism, Threat, and Declining Tolerance and Support for Democracy: Evidence from the Post-Arab Spring Middle East
… This suggests that, five years after the forced removal of democratically-elected Islamists, authoritarians no longer had an instrumental interest in supporting democracy and returned to relying on their authoritarian value system for influencing their institutional preferences. The …
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FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
Forced displacement is one of the most pressing phenomena of our time. According to UNHCR data, the number of forcibly displaced persons worldwide increased from 18.2 million to 117.3 million between 1993 and 2024 – more than six times higher in thirty years. Despite the scale and severity of the …
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Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro
… what would become the city’s largest favela removal operation since the 1964-1975 military dictatorship campaign. The justification for removing what <em>would</em> have been at least 119 favelas and upwards of 200 thousand residents was based on protecting them from environmental risks, such …
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HUSHGAH ADIISH THE BADLANDS LODGE: A HIDATSA CULTURAL HUB ON THE UPPER-MISSOURI RIVER IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
… a power vacuum in the Upper-Missouri region. Forced from their villages on the Knife River complex, the Mandan and Hidatsa migrated north along the Missouri where they were later joined by the Arikara for mutual defense against the Lakota and Dakota Sioux. Chapter two shows the founding of …