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Rejecting the Return to Rural Lives: Urban relocated displaced people challenge the state compensation law in Cartagena, Colombia

presented by Gloria Clemencia Perez-Rivera

Colombia has about five million officially recognized Internally Displaced People (IDP), the largest number of IDPs worldwide. This number does not reflect by any means the millions that have moved from rural to semi-urban and urban areas since 1985, the cut-off year for the government to compensate victims of the internal conflict through the Victims’ Law of 2011. This paper based on preliminary field work conducted in the summer 2014, is concerned with the tensions between the state’s resolution of promoting and sponsoring displaced people return to their previous rural lives and what IDPs relocated in the urban area of ELPozon, Cartagena, a neighborhood of about 42,000 in majority IDPs themselves see as their necessities.

SLC Lower Level meeting rooms 1 & 2

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/isss/activities-events /world-on-wednesdays-wow/

Open to the public

Food and Drinks Provided

Sponsored by: International Student and Scholar Services