Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2025
This chapter questions the supposed groupness of the displaced and challenges the idealised notion of ‘displaced communities’. It shows that the assumed homogeneity of the displaced can have grave consequences. Resettlement of those who were displaced by different actors together has led to casualties and it still manifests itself in continued fractions years after displacement in one of the hamlets of resettlement. Challenging the myth of a ‘community’ further, the chapter examines the measures the displaced take to differentiate themselves from other displaced. They create ‘displacement hierarchies’ which they base on the level of suffering, the degree of severity of their displacement, but also on a hierarchy of moral behaviour. Finally, the chapter describes the loss of a community which formed after physical relocation. Different world views, values and power hierarchies have slowly destabilised unity. The chapter argues that the differences among the displaced affect their social interaction and social landscapes, while the loss of the community also leads to renewed sense of displacement.
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