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resettlement  

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  • Resettlement is the process through which populations displaced from their habitat and productive activities relocate to another site and reestablish themselves productively. As a sociological and anthropological concept, the term resettlement is used mostly in the context of policies, planning work, and social research dealing with displacements caused by development. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Resettlement]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-NF8P0J2J-2

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