Burma: the changing nature of displacement crises

Ashley South

The shifting nature of conflict in Burma over the past fifteen years has structured a range of inter-linked displacement crises. This paper identifies three main types of forced migration within and from the country: armed conflict-induced displacement, state/society-induced displacement, and livelihood/vulnerability-induced displacement. This paper argues that internal displacement in Burma is the product not only of armed conflict in the insurgent-prone eastern borderlands, but also of decades of mis-governance by the militarized state.

Type

Working paper

Publisher

Refugee Studies Centre

Publication Date

02/2007

Volume

39

Total pages

32

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