Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The demographic background to development in Africa
- 2 Development projects and their demographic impact
- 3 Conceptualization of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution
- 4 Capitalism and the population landscape
- 5 Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment
- 6 Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency?
- 7 Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958–80
- 8 Populating Uganda's dry lands
- 9 Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagization programme
- 10 Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania
- 11 Communal villages and the distribution of the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique
- 12 A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi
- 13 Resettlement and under-development in the Black ‘Homelands’ of South Africa
- 14 Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria
- 15 Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana
- 16 Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan
- 17 A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan
- 18 Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan
- 19 The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution
- 20 Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme
- 21 The Gash Delta: labour organization in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production
- 22 The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan
- 23 The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan
- Index
13 - Resettlement and under-development in the Black ‘Homelands’ of South Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The demographic background to development in Africa
- 2 Development projects and their demographic impact
- 3 Conceptualization of the impacts of rural development projects upon population redistribution
- 4 Capitalism and the population landscape
- 5 Unequal participation of migrant labour in wage employment
- 6 Africa's displaced population: dependency or self-sufficiency?
- 7 Population redistribution and agricultural settlement schemes in Ethiopia, 1958–80
- 8 Populating Uganda's dry lands
- 9 Environmental and agricultural impacts of Tanzania's villagization programme
- 10 Development and population redistribution: measuring recent population redistribution in Tanzania
- 11 Communal villages and the distribution of the rural population in the People's Republic of Mozambique
- 12 A century of development measures and population redistribution along the Upper Zambezi
- 13 Resettlement and under-development in the Black ‘Homelands’ of South Africa
- 14 Development programmes and population redistribution in Nigeria
- 15 Population, disease and rural development programmes in the Upper East Region of Ghana
- 16 Demographic intermediation between development and population redistribution in Sudan
- 17 A typology of mobility transition in developing societies, with application to North and Central Sudan
- 18 Rural population and water supplies in the Sudan
- 19 The impact of the Kenana Project on population redistribution
- 20 Migrant labour in the New Halfa Scheme
- 21 The Gash Delta: labour organization in pastoral economy versus labour requirements in agricultural production
- 22 The impact of development projects on population redistribution to Gedaref Town in Eastern Sudan
- 23 The growth of Juba in Southern Sudan
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The study of settlement and resettlement schemes attracts researchers from a wide range of social science disciplines. Indeed, Chambers (1969: 12) once described the field as something of ‘an academic no-man's-land’. Increasingly, however, human geographers are assuming an important role in the investigation of several programmes of population resettlement and their associated implications. Recent contributions by geographers include work on the resettlement of reservoirevacuees in Thailand (Lightfoot 1978; 1979); the impact of Algeria's programme of regroupement (Sutton, 1977; Sutton and Lawless, 1978); spontaneous agricultural resettlement in Ethiopia (Wood, 1982); and the special problems of resettlement schemes for refugees in Africa (Rogge, 1981; 1982). Irrespective of the actual causes of resettlement, whether stemming from new dam/water schemes or military counter-insurgency operations, the process of relocation is one which inevitably results in considerable stress and trauma for the peoples involved. In particular, studies emphasize the adjustments that must be borne by resettled communities as a consequence of a disruption in social relations and possibly the loss of economic and social assets (Sutton, 1977).
During the past two decades major programmes of population removal and resettlement have occurred throughout the sub-continent of Southern Africa. The regional struggles for decolonization and African majority rule, the experience of post-independence civil strife and flight from apartheid contributed a flow of almost one million refugees (Hart and Rogerson, 1982). To this international migration flow must be added an even larger stream of ‘internal’ refugees in Southern Africa.
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- Population and Development Projects in Africa , pp. 176 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985
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