Displacement, Migration and Resettlement

Informal urban growth is one of the most impressive expressions of social, economic structures, spatial and environmental of local order, regional and national in countries where it is produced. Mobility of voluntary migrants and groups in situation of forced displacement generates drastic changes in the relations and configuration of the territory, in the departure sites (almost always rural environs) as in arrival sites (almost always urban periphery) of this population.

Internal displacement and resettlement are two instances of only one situation: the tragedy of millions of human beings searching for shelter and protection offered by civilization and modernity which have been denied by circumstances proper to development models and their practices political, administrative and legal of the different States. Much of the primitive human condition underlies in this phenomenon, which, although great advance in the construction of beautiful and functional cities, still has not built effective ways to confront the principal paradox of its major creation: informal urban processes.