Displacement, Return, and Relocation: Housing and Community Recovery Considerations

Internal and transnational movement and mobility of persons affected by disasters can be characterized in myriad ways based on the severity of the event (hazard, crisis, disaster, and catastrophe), type of movement (voluntary and forced), drivers (economic, political, demographic, social, and/or environmental conditions), recovery timeframes (short-or long-term recovery), and outcomes (evacuation, displacement, return, and relocation). These drivers and outcomes overlap in multiple ways, both spatially and temporally.