Internal Displacement And Forced Displacement

Abstract

The Displacement of people refers to the forced movement of people from their locality or environmental and occupational activities it is a form of social change caused by a number of factors, the most common being armed conflict . Natural Disasters, famine, development and economic changes may also be a cause of displacement. Today the world is moving towards a phased globalized process irrespective of its process of economic growth and development. This has compelled, many nations to strategically formulate, policies which has infact his let the large masses of the populations to get displaced voluntarily or involuntarily. There has been displacement in different forms such as internal displacement, forced displacement, refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless person and other who include those to whom UNHCR has extended its protection and assistance services, based on humanitarian or other special grounds. The causes for such displacement have been either in terms of violence and conflict, natural disaster and the process of economic growth.