Resettlement

Isabelle CÔtÉ is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her works examine the role of internal population movements on intrastate conflict and contentious politics in Asia and beyond.Yolande Pottie-Sherman is an Assistant Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is the co-founder of the Adaptive Cities and Engagement Space, a research collective promoting social justice in small cities and communities and author of numerous academic articles and reports on migration, socio-cultural diversity, and community change.

"This collection of scholarly essays... covers a lightning rod of a subject for Newfoundland and Labrador. Resettlement provides the most comprehensive overview of community relocation here, with new analysis covering the last decade." - Jenn Thornhill Verma, Atlantic Books Today

• List of Figures   vii Contributors   ix Acknowledgements   xiii INTRODUCTION 1. Resettlement in Newfoundland and Labrador in Comparative Perspective Yolande Pottie-Sherman, Isabelle Côté, and Rebecca LeDrew   1 PART I: Resettlement in Newfoundland and Labrador 2. Development's Travelling Rationalities: Contextualizing Newfoundland Resettlement Tina Loo   43 3. Not Just Pawns in a Board Game: Local Actors in the Fisheries Household Resettlement Program George Withers   79 4. Should We Stay or Should We Go? Mobility, Immobility, and Community Closure in Newfoundland and Labrador, 2009–2018 Isabelle Côté and Yolande Pottie-Sherman   111 PART II: Resettlement in Greenland, Ireland, and Canada's Arctic 5. Resettlement, Urbanization, and Rural–Urban Homelessness Geographies in Greenland Julia Christensen and Steven Arnfjord   143 6. Non-State Actors and Resettlement in Reverse: The Case of Rural Resettlement Ireland Hannah Barry and Isabelle Côté   181 7. Climate Resettlement in Canada's Arctic Nicole Marshall   223 Index   259