It is perhaps commonplace to argue that displacement issues are crucial for understanding processes of global (re)integration and economic change in the twenty-first century. We know, for example, that processes of displacement characterise the restructuring of states and economic sectors, innovative forms of employment and economic subsistence, and the building of modern infrastructure or megaprojects not limited to dams and roadways. We also know that discourses about development increasingly reflect an interest in displacement in conceptualisations of modernity and territorialisation, and in understanding modes of economic, political, and social formations and interventions. Not surprisingly, whether exploring post-colonial states, the globalisation of industrial and military complexes, planned resettlement schemes and infrastructural projects, or the consequences of war and the creation of refugees, we can see communities and solidarities cast asunder in ways that prompt new meanings of belonging, home, identity, citizenship, and rights. These changes make displacement a crucial aspect of contemporary experience.With some notable exceptions, only recently have the social sciences 1 explored questions of place and displacement. In prior thinking, connections to place and movements from it, interactions across place and complex negotiations in place, were often, although not always, assumed. This meant that the concept of place was deployed more as a descriptive than an analytic notion, and generally given only limited theoretical review. It also meant that questions associated with processes of negotiation, and with the capacities of people to make choices about displacement, have often been left unexplored. This is exemplified by demographers who generally emphasise the patterning of population shifts across time and place rather than focus on place or space as both context and analytic.Yet, social science is awakening not only to place, settlement, and movement, but to imposed place, forced resettlement, and involuntary migration. Thomas Gieryn's paper ''A Space for Place in Sociology'' (2000) ranks number four in the accounting of the most read articles in sociology, and Goodchild et al. (2000) correctly identify the analysis of space and place as an increasingly pivotal component of social science research. Demographers also have begun to question the complexities associated with how established and emergent communities sustain networks with their places of origin, as well as construct networks in their new places of residence. Geographers and urban scholars, inspired by feminist analyses, have drawn attention to new configurations of urban communities and the use and meanings of space and place. Cultural anthropologists have identified new theoretical terrain to unsettle the static meaning of location and rethink relationships between people and nation, state, identity, and transnationality. Tying displacement to transnationality also has become a lens for interpreting people's experience as an enactment ...
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