Displacement, resettlement and livelihoods

Using administrative data to estimate population displacement and resettlement following a catastrophic U.S. disaster

After a large scale evacuation, authorities need to know the new and frequently changing population distributions in order to meet needs for housing, schools, health care, and other services. This paper reviews literature from the fields of demography and other disciplines to identify available administrative data sets that can form the basis of sound, relevant, and timely county-level populati...

Women, resettlement and desistance

With the numbers of women imprisoned increasing across Western jurisdictions over the last 15 or so years, so too have the numbers of women returning to the community following a period in custody. Despite increasing policy attention in the UK and elsewhere to prisoner resettlement, women’s experiences on release from prison have received limited empirical and policy attention. Drawing upon int...

Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods

Refugee Resettlement Housing Scout

According to the United States High Commission for Refugees (UNHCr), there are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, 21.5 million of them being refugees. This has led to an unprecedented refugee crisis which has led countries to accept refugee families and to resettle them. Diverse agencies are helping refugees coming to US to resettle and start their new life in the countr...

Resettlement--the Last Phase.

In his last budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced as part of his plans the rehabilitation of derelict sites. That reminded me that the term 'rehabilitation' which we have come to use in medicine, is probably. quite inappropriate, becaume it really hints at derelict or down-and-out human beings. It is not really a description appropriate to the resettlement of the sick or injured man...