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Abstract

As a multiethnic country, social conflicts have often happened in Indonesia. One of the massive social conflicts
occurred in the Poso Regency. The social conflict was claimed as a religious conflict, although a political
contestation also contributed. An uneasy relationship between Muslims and Christians had already been forming
since 1992 and it exploded into a social conflict in 1998 and 2000. It pushed people of both religions to flee Poso
for safety. When peace eventually returned to Poso, some villagers refused to return to their previous villages
because of the trauma they had experienced. They preferred to build a new life in other villages. In the new village,
land ownership is limited and the displaced families depend more on non-agricultural work than on agriculture.
This research uses a mixed-method approach in an IDP village with 80 participants. Results of the changing of
livelihood strategy among IDP households are discussed.

1141 Impact of Disasters on Internal Migration Patterns: A study from Sri Lanka

Irangi Samarakoon

University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Categories

5. Population Mobility (Internal and International Migration, including Refugees) and Urbanization

Abstract

Disasters can be an important push factor in the area of origin which creates new flows of internal migration. The
influence of disasters in the process of internal migration has been not well-documented even though it’s a historical
occurrence. The objective of this study is to identify the impact of disasters i.e. natural and man-made in the internal
migration and the new migration flows the disasters have created with the end of the war that prevailed for Sri Lanka
for more than 30 years. This study is conducted based on secondary data sources. Descriptive statistics and content
analysis have been conducted. This study identifies the migration resulted due to disaster exposures. Moreover,
the finding of the study is also beneficial in explaining the internal migration efficiency and intensity rates of the
population. The identification of internal migration flows in a population is important in the distribution of resources
and carrying out development programmes as it supports to provide a picture on the distribution of the population.

1097 Child Work and Child Migration: A Case Study of Maharashtra

Shalini Sen
International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India