Post-disaster resettlement in the Philippines: a risky strategy

Abstract

Experience in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan suggests that resettlement as a strategy for mitigating disaster-induced displacement can create significant protection risks.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• disasters
• climate change
• relocation
• adaptation
• Typhoon Haiyan
• resettlement