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09 Forced Migration
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- 1forced migrationmovement of people (refugees and internally displaced people) displaced by conflict or by natural/environmental disasters, chemical/nuclear disasters, famine or development projects
example: Syria - 2refugeespeople who have fled from one country to another
example: people fled from violence in Darfur and now live in a refugee camp in Chad - 3internally displaced people (IDPs)people who have fled from one part of the country and now reside in another part of the same country
example: people who fled violence in Darfur, Sudan now live in a refugee camp in Chad (neighboring country) - 4Conflict as a cause of forced migrationoccurs when people flee from war/conflict
- 5Environmental disasters as a cause of forced migration- people can be forced to migrate after an environmental disaster (flooding)
- sea level rises due to climate change forcing migration (climate refugees) - 6Development projects as a cause of forced migrationpeople are displaced due to development projects
example: Three Gorges dam was flooded; 1 million people were displaced - 7Civil war in Syria- causes: uprising against President Assad resulted in bloody civil war (2011), civilians were bombed and gased, 10 million people were displaced + forced to flee
- forced migration: 6 million internally displaced people, 4 million fled to countries outside Syria (Turkey, Iraq, Jordan
- 1.4 million refugees went to Lebanon
putting a strain on Lebanon's health services, education system, water, electricity and sanitation supply
- IDPs in Syria didn't have access to life-saving aid, clean water, basic food needs
- many lost home + possessions
- diseases (polio) cases - overcrowded area
- humanitarian agencies refused access to civilians in need - 8Environmental factors and ethnic hatred in Darfur, Sudan- rural black farmers of Darfur fled to refugee camps within Sudan
- climate change caused Sahara desert to expand forcing Arab herders to move south into area occurpied by black farmers
- Arab government supported Arab herders and provided them with weapons to attack black farmers resulting in genocide
- due to ethnic hatred and inferiority
- refugees from Darfur fled to Chad
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- Grade 11 Geography (09 Forced Migrations) FlashCards sobre 09 Forced Migration, criado por Jenna Talib em 27-09-2022.
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