ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways to resuscitate more critical discussion on development with displacement. It focuses on the resettlement issues tends to limit the possibility of questioning the necessity of displacement in the first place and the model of development that requires population displacement. Development-induced displacement (DID) has been controversial mainly because the necessity of displacement is still debatable, unlike other types of displacement such as conflict-induced displacement (CID) or natural disaster-induced displacement (NID). Development becomes a series of practices to be applied to different contexts, with a depoliticising effect of silencing the contradictions and conflicts that might arise. The study of non-displacement impacts is premised on the view that development is a fundamentally transformative process and its impacts can be much wider in scope and more diverse in kind such as forced migration. Differentiations emerged among urban residents living in the compact area with regard to the ways in which their social milieu was affected by local changes.
