Displacement: its impact on tribal population (a case study)

Displacement of people from the originally settled area has been a burning issue in the present day world. Population displacement becomes a major human rights issue in recent years. Displaced person is one who forced to leave his or her own territory or natural place. This mobility of communities by inside or by outside force brings ecological changes and environmental degradation that has been a companion of development. Further, displacement carries on impoverishment and affects adversely the Tribal people specially women and children in particular. The impact of consequent impoverishment as a result of displacement affects the all concerned, but women feel it more than others do. It carries higher joblessness, greater malnutrition and deterioration in their social status. Since access to work declines after the loss of land and property that is also the foundation of the loss of tribal women’s relatively status. Tribal people have displaced from their original homeland results socio-economic as well as cultural change. Displacement due to development projects and political causes receive much more publicity and attention, but it is not so in case of the displacement affected population caused by natural calamities like flood, soil erosion etc. This paper presents a descriptive framework to understand the displacement factors, rehabilitation process, socio-economic and cultural perspectives of displaced Boro and Mishing populations in the selected villages.