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The impact of mining-induced displacement and resettlement on the dynamics of belonging among displaced people in Katanga

Code
3E003016
Looptijd
01-10-2016 → 30-09-2020
Financiering
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Social work
    • Other sociology
    • Other sociology
    • Social and cultural anthropology
    • Other anthropology
Trefwoorden
democratische republiek Congo verhuizing en hervestiging mijnbouw
 
Projectomschrijving
 

When transnational mining corporations start up a large-scale mining project, they often decide to dispossess, relocate and resettle (some of) the people living in their mining concession. This research project, which is based on fieldwork in the southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, seeks to examine the impact of this involuntary displacement on people's sense of feeling at home.