| Conflict and displacement in Burma/Myanmar (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| Chapter 4 of 'Myanmar—the state, community and the environment'. Patterns of forced migration in Burma/Myanmar are structured by the changing nature of conflict in the country. While acutely vulnerable internally displaced persons do live in those few areas of the country that are still affected by significant armed conflict (especially in the insurgentprone eastern borderlands), the phenomenon of forced migration is more widespread and complex. Yet assessments of forced migration in the country as a whole have tended to be obscured by the focus on parts of eastern Burma that are accessible to agencies working across the border from Thailand. Much less is known about the situation in other geographic areas, or about displaced populations not accessible to the armed opposition groups with which cross-border aid agencies cooperate. Another problem is that the literature on the political economy of conflict and displacement is sparse, and the majority of investigators have been constrained by their own sociopolitical agendas. Their emphasis on ‘problem-finding’ has not taken account of the positive trends that have emerged in the past decade. | |||||||||||||||
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