Development-Induced Displacement in India and China

A Comparative Look at the Burdens of Growth

Foreword by Michael M. Cernea Contributions by Joël Cabalion, Kam Wing Chan, Yingfang Chen, Rikil Chyrmang, Samir Kumar Das, Vijay Korra, Guangming Liu, Florence Padovani, S. Irudaya Rajan, Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky, Hongyuan Song, Xing Ying Edited by Florence Padovani

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Publication date:

29 August 2016

Length of book:

280 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498529044

The world seems to have recently discovered India and China as major players in Asia, and political and economic connections between the two countries are rapidly growing. Beyond the fashionable phenomenon, the two countries have much in common and many shared experiences. Both are developing countries with dynamic economies focused on lifting their people out of poverty. There are also differences as well, as India is a democracy while China is an autocratic state, and the speed of economic growth is much higher in India. This collection provides a comparative analysis of development-induced migration in India and China caused by urbanization and dam construction. The contributors include scholars from both countries working in both academia and consultancy positions.

Foreword, Michael Cernea
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Florence Padovani

Part I: Development Project-Induced Migration: A State Mission
Chapter 1: Migration and Development Strategies in Post-1949 China, Kam Wing Chan
Chapter 2: A Gaze without a Gaze: State, Development, and the Internally Displaced Persons in Contemporary India, Samir Kumar Das

Part II: The Organization of the Political and Administrative Structures Dealing with Migrants
Chapter 3: An Analysis of Policies on the Migration of Rural Labor, Hongyuan Song and Guangming Liu
Chapter 4: Internal Migration in India: Dealing with the Political and Administrative Organization, S. Irudaya Rajan, Vijay Korra, and Rikil Chyrmang

Part III: Mumbay and Shanghai: Two Cities Developing at High Speed: Analysis of the Social Impact
Chapter 5: “Shanghai Speed”: The Development System and Urban Dwellers’ Experiences, Yingfang Chen
Chapter 6: Shanghaiing Mumbai: Resettlement Programs and Social Cost of Urban Development Policies, Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky

Part IV: The Gosikhurd and Three Gorges Dams: The Social Cost of Energy
Chapter 7: State Science and Resettlement Knowledge: The Gosikhurd Dam in Vidarbha, Joël Cabalion
Chapter 8: Analysis of the Social Implications of the Three Gorges Dam Project, Florence Padovani
Chapter 9: In China: Analysis of the Interest Expression Mechanisms amongst Chinese Dam Resettlees: An Account of the First Case Linked to the Three Gorges Resettlement, Xing Ying

Florence Padovani has assembled an amazing set of papers focused on the effects of displacement from urban development and dam construction in China and India, and has very skillfully presented them in a comparative perspective in this superb book. Comparing such experiences is never easy, particularly in situations where the challenges of development-induced displacement are similar, but where the approaches followed to address them diverge hugely. A path-breaking study, this book will be of great interest to resettlement researchers, practitioners, and also students everywhere, not in India and China alone.