SPECIAL APPELLATION OR SPECIAL CARE? A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CHALLENGES FACING DEVELOPMENT-INDUCED INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA

Adekola, Paul Oluwatomipe and Azuh, Dominic E. and Amoo, Emmanuel O. and Olusanmi, O. (2020) SPECIAL APPELLATION OR SPECIAL CARE? A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CHALLENGES FACING DEVELOPMENT-INDUCED INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA. OSUN GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, 3. 10 -21. ISSN 2695 - 1959

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Abstract

Urban renewal is usually a government-sanctioned exercise to clean up decaying portions of cities. Following unintended negative consequences like internal displacements arising from the exercise in developing countries, scholars call for naming those displaced by it “special categories of IDPs” to receive humanitarian assistance like those displaced by conflicts. This research aims to examine the challenges faced by development-induced IDPs in Ogun State, South-West Nigeria. About 420 adult IDPs who have had either their houses or shops demolished were randomly selected from two purposively chosen Local Government Areas (LGAs): Abeokuta North and Ado-Odo/Ota out of the five LGAs where massive urban renewal took place recently. Logistic regression results showed significant relationships between those forcefully displaced and occupational, income as well as health consequences. Traders, for instance, are three times more likely to lose customers and subsequently close business than civil servants who are the reference category in the regression results ( OR= 3.0; P< 0.001). Results also show a significant relationship between forced migrants and symptoms of depression arising from displacement through urban renewal because those affected were 12.8 times more likely to be depressed than those who were not displaced (RC=12.8; P<0.001). We recommend that in future similar exercise, the better and lasting solution is to compensate development-induced IDPs commensurately rather than calling them names that do not solve their problems.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Urban renewal, internal displacement, humanitarian assistance, consequence, compensation
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs Hannah Akinwumi
Date Deposited:	29 Jun 2021 15:19
Last Modified:	29 Jun 2021 15:19
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/15124

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