ABSTRACT
Displacement is a fairly recently recognised phenomenon within studies of migration, where people flee from their local environment to another location inside their own country, rather than to another country as refugees. This chapter focuses on the paucity of research, including both migration studies and linguistics in regards to people who have been displaced inside their countries or in the porous border regions of adjoining countries. It also focuses on issues of language in relation to well-being, epistemology, and cosmology and communities who are displaced. The chapter considers displaced people in three marginal contexts. The first is in relation to small endangered and marginalised San and Khoe communities of Southern Africa. The second is in relation to pastoral people in Ethiopia who experience restricted mobility, desertification, impoverishment, and linguistic and faith-based discrimination. The third is in relation to post-conflict North West Uganda where socio-political and educational reconstruction occurs in the context of a changing linguistic landscape.
