By: Ashley Tennessen, Brandon Englert, Shelby Condra, Travis Dicken, Spencer Clark
Displacement How would you feel if you were displaced from your home? According to the Social and Human Science, the displacement of people refers to the forced movement of people from their region or environment and job-related activities. The cause of being displaced is typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. There are typically two types of displacement: Direct Displacement, which leads to the actual displacement of people from their locations and Indirect Displacement, which leads to a loss of livelihood. This forces the people to leave the home region to which they are attached to. This hinders the people because this is where they grew up, and the customs
Estimated more than 68 million people displaced globally currently over 20 million were displaced by
they are used to.
Who are the people that are displaced? A person who has been forced to leave their country, that has crossed an international border and falls under one of
sudden-onset weather
the relevant international legal instruments, in order to
2.4 million people were being annually
escape war, persecution, or natural disasters is a refugee. Refugees leave their country because they have no other
displaced
choice, but only fear for their own life or safety or that of
26 million internally displaced people
their family. Refugees are in search of better living conditions because of the difficult circumstances prevailing
that were uprooted within their own
in the places they originally are from. Refugees also flee
countries
their country when their government will not or cannot protect them from serious human rights abuses.
annual figure of 144,000 people being forcefully evicted each year 29 different groups of 25,000 or more refugees are in 22 nations that have been in exile for five years or longer
“I think it's exactly what we've been afraid of: the return of one population and the displacement of another.� Paula Ghedini
Displacement What do they have to call home?
“After 22 years of conflict, more than one million people in northern Uganda remain displaced from their homes. The rebel army refuses to sign a
DID YOU KNOW? 43.3 million people were forcibly displaced last year alone 24.7 million people were displaced by other causes 1% of the worlds entire population make up the official displaced number 12% of Sudan’s population are displaced One in every 170 people are uprooted by war Women and children make up 80% of all displaced people
Displacement SUDAN: A HISTORY OF TURMOIL Since 1999 international attention has been focused on evidence that slavery is widespread throughout Sudan. Arab raiders from the north of the country have enslaved thousands of southerners, who are black. The Dinka people have been the hardest-hit. Some sources point out that the raids intensified in the 1980s along with the civil war between north and south.
National name: Jamhuryat as-Sudan President: Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad alBashir (1989) Current government officials Land area: 917,374 sq mi (2,376,001 sq km); total area: 967,493 sq mi (2,505,810 sq km) Population (2010 est.): 41,980,182 (growth rate: 2.1%); birth rate: 33.2/1000; infant mortality rate: 78.1/1000; life expectancy: 52.5; density per sq mi: 46 Capital (2003 est.): Khartoum, 5,717,300 (metro. area), 1,397,900 (city proper) Largest cities: Omdurman, 2,103,900; Port Sudan, 450,400 Monetary unit: Dinar
Ever since Lt. Gen. Omar Bashir's military coup in 1989, the de facto ruler of Sudan had been Hassan el-Turabi, a cleric and political leader who is a major figure in the pan-Arabic Islamic fundamentalist resurgence. In 1999, however, Bashir ousted Turabi and placed him under house arrest. (He was freed in Oct. 2003.) Since then Bashir has made overtures to the West, and in Sept. 2001, the UN lifted its six-year-old sanctions. The U.S., however, still officially considers Sudan a terrorist state. A cease-fire was declared between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in July 2002. During peace talks, which continued through 2003, the government agreed to a power-sharing government for six years, to be followed by a referendum on selfdetermination for the south. Fighting on both sides continued throughout the peace negotiations. In May 2004, a deal between the government and the SPLA was signed, ending 20 years of brutal civil war that resulted in the deaths of 2 million people.
Where are they now?
Displacement
How did she end up so far away from home? Woro Fatuma and her family had to flee their home in Juba, Sudan when she was only 5 years old due to the fact that the war had finally reached the capital of Juba, Sudan. Losing more than 5 years of schooling, it was hard for Woro to get back into school after her move to Khartoum, which was a three-week journey down the Nile River on a barge. She is finally returning home and plans to re-enroll into school and finish her education so she can
What is the current situation? The current situation in Sudan is that, with the help of the U.N., the nation is finally resolving the war, and also on its way to becoming a democracy. Although it is still recovering from the malicious 20 year war that ravaged the country and all its inhabitants, and recovering from being the single largest displaced country, with over 4 million ran away from their homes, there is hope for the people of Sudan, with the help from the rest of the world.
participate in the up-coming elections.
What can be done About Sudan’s Displacement Problems? The most important problem, the 20 year civil war, is on its way to being settled. The U.N. is stepping in and shipping food and supplies for the suffering public, unfortunately, the country still suffers from the after-effects of the brutal war. It seems as if the only thing that is going to repair this broken nation is hope, which is very scarce to the bruised and tattered populace .
A child who died only a few feet away from the rationing center in Sudan
Displacement Isn’t About Time for the American Government to Step Up and Help its Own? America has take some hard hits in the past, earthquakes in California, ice storms hitting most of the Central United States, and town flattening tornadoes. We have had many disasters that have forced people out of their homes or left them with no home. The question now for our government by people that have been forced to be homeless is “why aren’t you helping us?” “It had a life. You could hear it breathing and growling.”
What should the government be doing for those who are kicked out of their homes? The emotional feel
A good example of this took place in Mapleton, a small town in Iowa, was almost completely flattened by a tornado on Saturday April 10, 2011. A local in the area, Tamara Adams age 37, lost her home that day. When asked about the experience Tamara said “That sound, I’ll never get it out of my head,” She went on to say “It had a life. You could hear it breathing and growling.” Tamara was able to make it to safety, but not before getting a glimpse of the three quarters of a mile wide beast. She told that as soon as she started to close the door to her basement the tornado was ripping the roof off the store across from her home. When it was over Tamara got to see the 30 foot tree that had crushed
Americans are getting from the Government when forced out of their homes, whether it’s by natural disaster or the falling economy, is the government is not to blame and they already have lawyers on the phone. It’s time for the government to step up and take responsibility for the nation they have sworn to protect and take care of. It is suggested that one of the reasons people aren’t taken care of when they are forced out of their homes and have nowhere to go is the government is too worried about prioritizing the market when their top
her home. Forced out of her home by the tornado,
priority should be their fellow
Tamara devastated and now homeless had nothing
Americans that are forced to be
to do, but gather up the branches from the
homeless, so what the government
tree that was now resting on a place she once
should be doing is rearranging its
called home sweet home. A question not
priorities.
answered, where was her help?
Wouldn’t You Want The Help?
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