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Desplazamientos internos e internacionales en el marco de dinámicas globales

Haciendo un seguimiento a las cifras de desplazamiento forzado interno e internacional durante las últimas tres décadas, este escrito plantea unas hipótesis explicativas que vayan más allá, sin menospreciarlas, de las miradas internas.
Published on December 12, 2022
Fabio Lozano | lanid, IDPs, Refugees, International migration, Violence, Humanities, International, Americas (inc Caribbean)
Panama. Refugees and migrants crossing the Darien Gap in search for safety, protection, and better opportunities. 2022 © UNHCR/Viola E. Bruttomesso

Panama. Refugees and migrants crossing the Darien Gap in search for safety, protection, and better opportunities. 2022 © UNHCR/Viola E. Bruttomesso

El escrito analiza las dinámicas globales que conducen a dicha migración forzada y cuestiona el alcance de las explicaciones basadas únicamente en aproximaciones locales que ligan dicha migración a disputas internas de carácter étnico, racial, económico, político o multifactorial que se utilizan hegemónicamente por parte de reconocidos autores e instituciones mundiales.

Se plantea, que la gran oleada de migración forzada nacional e internacional, corresponde a un violento ataque contra poblaciones desarmadas, instrumentalizado mediante ejércitos regulares e irregulares, locales o internacionales, y dirigido a la expulsión o sometimiento territorial en aras de saqueos extractivistas coloniales. Para el efecto se proponen categorías de comprensión y lineamientos de acción alternativos.

Fabio Lozano Velásquez es  filósofo, teólogo, máster en  desarrollo rural y doctor en estudios sobre América Latina. Es fundador de la Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento (CODHES) y profesor en la Universidad San Buenaventura. Forma parte, además, de la Latin American Network on Internal Displacement (LANID).

LANID Special Issue: “Perspectivas críticas sobre el desplazamiento forzado”

La Red Latinoamericana de Desplazamiento Interno (LANID) reúne académicos, activistas, artistas y profesionales interesados en reflexionar sobre el desplazamiento interno. A través de esta colección de estudios se busca ampliar el conocimiento sobre este fenómeno, así como promover la discusión sobre el mismo. El carácter multidimensional de este tipo de movilidad humana, así como la complejidad de sus causas y la necesidad de buscar nuevos caminos para el logro de soluciones duraderas que permitan a las personas afectadas superar su condición de vulnerabilidad, constituyen el común denominador de estos trabajos.

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Moving Towards Solutions: Addressing Loss and Damage from Protracted Displacement in Bangladesh

By Steve Miron, Dyuti Tasnuva Rifat, Tanjib Islam | Feb 25, 2026
Researching Internal Displacement is pleased to make this case study available as a stand-alone publication. Excerpted from a recent research and advocacy report by the Refugee Law Initiative, this case study of an urban informal settlement in Tongi, Bangladesh, examines the lived experience of loss and damage among people displaced in the context of climate change and left behind in climate action. Encouragingly, the case study also highlights a promising 'good practice' development intervention by the SAJIDA Foundation. In the case study, programme participants describe how Sajida’s multifaceted approach, which empowers women and girls, encourages positive behaviour change and prioritises psychosocial wellbeing across multiple programme workstreams, has helped restore agency, self-sufficiency and hope. SAJIDA’s programme shows how protracted displacement and associated losses and damages can be addressed and are not inevitable.
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Missing in (Climate) Action? Displaced Communities and the Search for Durable Solutions: Bangladesh as a loss and damage case study

By Steven Miron, Dyuti Tasnuva Rifat, Tanjib Islam | Oct 21, 2025
Foregrounding the voices of people living in three different communities of displacement in Bangladesh, this field research and advocacy report examines the nexus of climate change, loss and damage and displacement. This comprehensive report highlights promising interventions by Bangladeshi civil society organisations that have helped internally displaced people (IDPs) living in protracted displacement move toward durable solutions. It also examines positive developments on the policy front, including Bangladesh's fledgling National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management (NSIDM). At the same time, it calls attention to how Bangladesh's protracted displacement crisis remains under acknowledged and therefore under addressed in national policy and programming. The findings and recommendations in this report are intended to inform the UNFCCC's Loss and Damage mechanism – the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage (SNLD) and the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) ExCom, including its Taskforce on Displacement. Each must urgently demonstrate its commitment to addressing the growing displacement crisis and supporting durable solution programming. The report's findings and recommendations are also relevant to intergovernmental, governmental and civil society organisations working in and outside Bangladesh. Furthermore, the report suggests how conventional durable solutions approaches to displacement must evolve to remain relevant in a world of escalating losses and damages resulting from climate change.
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