Resettlement Policy Research Articles

The Government Communication Mechanism in Reducing Violence Diffusion of Street Vendors Relocation Policy

This research used descriptive qualitative method. Furthermore, this study aimed to identify actors, media, models, and the nature of message design in the relocation of street vendors, so that the so that conflicts in policy communication can be reduced. Informant of this research was government apparatus of Yogyakarta. The result of the research showed that Yogyakarta government as a system in communicating the street vendors’ relocation policy involves actors who play a collaborative and integrative role of all government elements that related to the street vendors’ relocation policy. Media that is widely used is interpersonal media with participatory communication model. Message design that is informative, persuasive, mobilitative, and coercive was used simultaneously regarding the context and purpose of communication from Yogyakarta government in Indonesia.

Resettlement Processes in the Ukrainian SSR during the Holodomor (1932–34)

This article, based on archival documents, reveals resettlement processes in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932–34, which were conditioned by the repressive policy of the Soviet power. The process of resettlement into those regions of the Soviet Ukraine where the population died from hunger most, and which was approved by the authorities, is described in detail. It is noted that about 90,000 people moved from the northern oblasts of the Ukrainian SSR to the southern part of the republic. About 127,000 people arrived in Soviet Ukraine from the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) and the western oblasts of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). The material conditions of their residence and the reasons for the return of settlers to their previous places of inhabitance are described. I conclude that the resettlement policy of the authorities during 1932–34 changed the social and national composition of the eastern and southern oblasts of Ukraine.

第一次世界大戦後の海外移植民政策・事業の形成と展開 : 内務省社会局の参入と「海外発展」への期待

第一次世界大戦後の海外移植民政策・事業の形成と展開 : 内務省社会局の参入と「海外発展」への期待

수원 군공항 이전 정책과 딜레마 상황 조건에 관한 연구

수원 군공항 이전 정책과 딜레마 상황 조건에 관한 연구

Resettlement, Populism and the Multiple Dimensions of Solidarity: Lessons from US and Canada

Abstract Resettlement is the selection and transfer of refugees from a State in which they have sought protection to a third State which has agreed, voluntarily, to admit them. Since resettlement is subject to State planning and control, it is usually immune from current populist narratives that depicts immigration as contrary to national interests. By looking at the experience of both US and Canada, the paper argues that this is not always the case. Resettlement involves not only an international dimension of solidarity, but also an intra-national one which, in turn, is both vertical and horizontal. The former refers to the role of the subnational units with regard to the selection and the distribution of refugees crossover the country, while the latter relates to the involvement of civil society in some elements of their identification or reception. A lack of coordination among these multiple dimensions of solidarity may result in local resistances that in the long run can influence the enforcement of national resettlement policy.

Joint relocation and districting using a nested compliance model for EMS systems

Emergency medical service (EMS) systems provide medical care to pre-hospital patients who need rapid response and transport. This paper proposes a modeling approach for joint relocation and districting strategies in EMS systems. This combined approach aims to increase the efficiency of EMS systems. We extend the nested-compliance model (which provides a relocation policy) to consider an upper bound on relocation time by partitioning the whole region into smaller sub-areas (districts). We analyze the decision regarding how to partition the service area into smaller sub-areas in which each sub-area operates independently under separate relocation strategies. Once the district solution is determined, a Tabu search is used to allocate stations and zones to districts and the optimal nested-compliance model solution is applied to each sub-area. The objective is to maximize the overall realized expected coverage. The performance of the combined relocation and districting policies are compared to a static policy (non-relocation and non-district) based on the adjusted maximum expected covering location problem (AMEXCLP) in a simulated system using real-world data. The numerical results show the benefits of our model over the AMEXCLP based on average realized coverage and the fraction of covered calls responded to by the first closest ambulance in the dispatching rank list.

Information spotlighting in Americans’ Decisions Surrounding Refugee resettlement Policy

Information spotlighting in Americans’ Decisions Surrounding Refugee resettlement Policy

Social Capital: Supportive of Bhutanese Refugees’ Integration in the United States

Successful integration refers to refugees’ ability to participate in their local community, access resources, and become citizens. Social capital, or the resources available through relational networks, has been both theoretically and empirically linked to successful integration. Studies have looked at the relationship between social capital and specific categories of integration (access to health care, employment, and language acquisition) across refugee populations. For the Bhutanese, a large resettled population in the U.S. who culturally emphasize the value relationships, social capital may be especially related to integration indicators across categories. A cross-sectional, multivariate linear regression analysis was performed in Stata/IC 15.1. In analyzing a sample of 244 Bhutanese refugees, results suggest that social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking) is positively associated to overall integration. Based on the results, implications for future research, as well as refugee resettlement policies and programs, are offered.

South Korean perceptions of North Korean immigration: evidence from an experimental survey

ABSTRACT What explains the South Korean public’s support for resettlement policies for North Korean arrivals and to what extent does the presentation of this issue influence these perceptions? A crucial and overlooked component of South Korea’s policy towards these North Koreans is the role of public perceptions. We contend that both the gender of the North Korean and the respondent shape perceptions. Via an original experimental web survey, we find a more than ten percentage point decrease in support for aid for North Koreans when the focus is on North Korean men compared to women or no mention of gender. Furthermore, we find lower support overall among female respondents. The results suggest a policy challenge for the South Korean government to meet their goals of integration for these arrivals.

Жандармская железнодорожная полиция: опыт осуществления массовых перевозок на территории Курской губернии (1896–1914)

We contribute to the discussion of the results of a significant resettlement policy, the role of the gendarme railway police in its implementation and the role of the gendarme structure in the history of the Russian Empire. For the first time, we make an attempt to disclose the mechanism of the gendarme railway police in implementing the state’s resettlement policy in the area of migration flows on the materials of the Kursk Governorate, taking into account the existing rail-way network and the structure of the gendarme police departments. Based on the materials of the State Archive of the Russian Federation and local archives, the issues of legal regulation of mass railway transportation by the gendarme railway police are considered. An analysis of the gen-darme’s paperwork based on the materials of the Kursk branch of the gendarme police department of the Moscow-Kursk railway is given, aspects of interaction with the railway administration, local authorities, and the general police are highlighted. We trace the change and expansion of the duties of the railway gendarmes in connection with changes in the resettlement policy during the period under review and highlight the main stages. Particular attention is paid to issues of public safety in the context of criminalization on the railways. We show the role of the gendarme railway police in ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of passengers, taking into account the situation in the Kursk Governorate. Particular attention is paid to the influence of resettlement processes on the internal organizational, personnel aspects of the activities of the railway police, the dependence of the employee’s spiritual and moral condition on personal choice. We draw conclusions on the significance, scale, diversity of the gendarme railway police activities during the implementation of the resettlement policy.

Challenges of Local Government, Environmental Justice, Sustainable Development: The Case of Qellem Wollega Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Currently, environment related problem is becoming a burning issue for every individuals and group of people living in the globe irrespective of our background as we have only one world that can’t be replaced by another one. We don’t have a reserve world therefore the only chance that we have is conserving it. Therefore, different scholars today have taken up to come across possible remedies as the issue is multidisciplinary in its nature. This problem is also visible in Ethiopian society at local level. One way of tackling environmental problem is giving attention to the impacts of environmental injustice on sustainable development. Therefore, this research tries to assess challenges of local government in storing up environmental justice to realize sustainable development. The main finding of this research is that the local government has less contribution in storing up environmental justice to realize sustainable development in the given areas. There is no enough awareness creation from government side regarding resettlement policy in a way that the re-settlers are not friendly treating their environment. Re-settlers are doing injustice on old settlers, future generations, living and non-living things, and on themselves since they have over-exploited natural resources in concerned areas. I used both primary and secondary datum to carry out this research. I suggest that concerned government bodies, civil societies or non-governments organizations should play their part to alleviate the problems.

The problems of people‘s resettlement policy in the Bukhara region in 1950-60s

The problems of people‘s resettlement policy in the Bukhara region in 1950-60s

The resettlement policy in the mid of 50s of XX century in Namangan region: The purposes and results

The resettlement policy in the mid of 50s of XX century in Namangan region: The purposes and results

The resettlement policy of imperial russia during the colonial period

In clause colonization and scale settling by Russian population of Turkmen territories and realization expansion plans to the statement of the domination in the territories occupied by Turkmens looks round. Besides the aspiration of the authorities of Petersburg to extend domination on all territories the Turkman was so strong that after tearing away of a part of territory of Khivan khanate and Bukhara omupama and receptions, thus, an exit to border with Afghanistan on Amu-Dare it seemed to them necessary necessarily to occupy and territories, adjacent with Afghanistan around the river of Kushka, and with Iran. Thus the tsarism and the colonial authorities of Turkestan considered extremely necessary creation, despite a difficult environment, along the future railway and territories adjoining to it the great number of Russian settlements which would serve as a support for colonial administration and army in case of excitements, indigenous population revolts suffice. Thus, it is possible to conclude that the colonial period the Zakaspijsky area including a considerable part of Turkmen territories, drew attention of the Russian authorities and immigrants, has been transformed into valuable enough object of operation. The colonialism-is colonialism. But consequences of its domination in Turkestan as in other regions, were not only negative.

“Modern Day Trojan Horse?” Analyzing the Nexus between Islamophobia and Anti-Refugee Sentiment in the United States

Although Islamophobia in the United States has long predated the election of President Donald Trump, the collision of anti-Muslim and anti-refugee sentiments is a relatively new development. This article explores how the Islamophobia industry—notably the Center for Security Policy and ACT for America—has mobilized its anti-Muslim ideologies to dismantle the U.S. Refugee Admissions Programs (USRAP). A review of works by prominent anti-Muslim authors demonstrates how the Islamophobia industry misconstrues migration—or “hijra”—as a national security threat, by linking refugees to “civilization jihad” and terrorism. Consequently, the Islamophobia industry has undermined the traditional bipartisan consensus on refugee resettlement in the United States dating back to World War II. The Trump administration has lent high-level support and impact to these ideologies by enacting the so-called “Muslim Ban” to prevent Muslim refugees from entering the United States. This article traces the history of U.S. refugee resettlement policy and explores the contemporary challenge it faces from rising Islamophobia.

The Public Policy Implementation on the Merchants Relocation in Tebing Tinggi City, North Sumatera Indonesia

This research described the public policy implementation Mayor's Regulation of Tebing Tinggi City Number: 501/195 of 2018 through model of Van Meter and Van Horn concerning to the Relocation Merchants in Pasar Kain and Pasar Induk Market Tebing Tinggi. This research method applied the qualitative approach and descriptive analysis. To gain data and information some informant included the Head of the Trade Office, Merchants, Members of Legislative and the local non-governmental organizations were selected. According to the research and discussion, there were results of the implementation of the Pasar Kain merchant relocation policy. It show that the standards and policy objectives were adequate of clear and realistic to be implemented. The utilization of available resources was not used optimally, communication between organizations was adequate. In the beginning there are many miscommunications between merchants and the relocation team, the characteristics of the implementing organization were consistent despite the many conflicts of interest and internal conflicts among the social, economic and political environment. In the initially, there were many social conflicts, the involvement of political elites and decrease income of merchants after being relocated. The attitude of the implementers was also quite consistent in supporting the policy. The implementation of the Pasar merchant relocation policy has not been optimal because the stalls have not been completely occupied.

«Для вас и эти условия хороши, вы не забывайте кто вы такой и откуда вы приехали сюда!»: трудовая повинность немецких переселенцев из СССР в оборонном производстве на территории «старого рейха» в конце Второй мировой войны

Between autumn 1943 and spring 1944 the German authorities were carrying out a phased evacuation of the ethnic Germans from the occupied territories of the USSR. The total number of this contingent in mid – 1944 was about 350 000 people. A significant number of the former Soviet German refugees was taken to Warthegau, West Prussia, Silesia, Oberdonau, Niederdonau and some other regions of Germany. According to worked out procedure, all evacuees were the subjects to temporary maintenance in the camps of the Ethnic German Liaison Office for registration procedures and naturalization.
 Under the conditions of total mobilization, many ethnic Germans became the part of Germany’s labor force. At the beginning of 1944 some of the higher officials of the NSDAP began to appeal to the leadership of the SS with a request to allow the mass recruitment of this contingent for employment in various regions of the Reich. However, such initiatives were rejected by H. Himmler because they were in conflict with the key principles of the resettlement policy. Recruiting of the German resettlers for the German military complex located in the so-called «Old Reich» (country in borders until March 1938) was of particular interest. As a result, most Soviet Germans were employed in factories producing for the Luftwaffe after finishing the registration in those camps. Labor recruitment of German resettlers continued until the end of 1944. Despite the growing demand for workers, some regions were no longer able to receive additional working contingents due to the influx of refugees from the western and then eastern territories of the Reich.
 The article reveals the mechanisms and characteristics of the involving of this category of German resettlers into forced labor service in the field of military production of Germany at the final stage of World War II.

Reasentamiento involuntario: políticas y prácticas en los Andes


 En las últimas décadas, se han desarrollado políticas internacionales para guiar los procesos de Reubicación Involuntaria con el fin de garantizar la reconstrucción social y mejoras en los estándares de vida de las comunidades reasentadas; sin embargo, las experiencias andinas nos muestran que, en general, estos objetivos no han sido alcanzados. ¿Cómo ajustar el diseño de políticas globales de reasentamiento involuntario para una mejor implementación en los Andes? Este artículo, siguiendo enfoques de desarrollo localmente situados, argumenta que las políticas de reasentamiento involuntario no se han ajustado adecuadamente al contexto y la cultura andina, lo que generó malas interpretaciones culturales y conflictos que a su vez han impedido su cumplimiento. El artículo se basa en el análisis del proceso de reubicación llevado a cabo por la compañía minera Antamina en la comunidad peruana de Yanacancha.

The Contentious Politics of Resettlement Programs: Evidence from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

AbstractLabelling resettlement programs as voluntary suggests that they cause little contention and are devoid of coercion. But is this representation accurate? Drawing on unpublished government documents and media reports, we provide a detailed case study of the Community Relocation Policy (CRP) of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) from 2009 to the present. We show that CRP has been fraught with contention due to the nature of the voting process and the slow and uncertain nature of the community-oriented consultative process. This article highlights the ways in which coercion has emerged from within the very communities considering resettlement, in addition to any coercion that might come from government officials.

The Influence of the Natural Factor on the State Resettlement Policy in the Kalmyk Lands (1840s – 1870s)

The Influence of the Natural Factor on the State Resettlement Policy in the Kalmyk Lands (1840s – 1870s)