A Good Read - Disasters and Forced Migration in the 21st Century

[Ken]

Here is an interesting paper on Disasters and Forced Migration in the 21st Century: http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Oliver-Smith/

[wildography]

yes; an interesting article... though I didn't much care for his writing style... he likes to use to many "big" words in most of his sentences. It makes it hard to read and understand - for me anyways!

Here is an example:

"Over the past twenty years, colleagues from the field of development-induced displacement, refugee studies and disaster research (Hansen and Oliver-Smith 1982, Cernea 1996, Turton 2003, Oliver-Smith in press) have discovered that the displaced peoples we work with share many similar challenges."

And that's just ONE sentence!

The colum of "related articles", on the left side of the page (of the link above), also were interesting. I couldn't/didn't read all of them - again, too many "big" words! My head was starting to ache! :hammer: