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          As resettlement practices still    public transport and connecting   Bajpai,  D. & Gautam, U. (2018).
          suffer from gender-blindness       roads to access the city, either   Assessing  social  impacts  of slum
          (Mehta, 2011) and therefore the    for employment  opportunities     displacement on women’s lives: A case
                                                                               study  of three  resettlement  colonies
          impact for  women is even worse    or urban infrastructure, were     in Delhi,  India. Kathmandu School
          than for men, it is crucial that in   verbally  and    graphically   of Law Review, 6(1),  86-102. https://
          the design, implementation and     expressed as being important to   heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.
          monitoring of  the outcomes  of    these women.  This highlights     journals/kslr6&i=110
          new projects  communities  are     once again the importance of      Bisht, T. C. (2009). Development-
          well represented and particularly   where these settlements are      induced displacement  and women:
          women are included in the whole    located and confirms that one of   the case of the  Tehri Dam, India. The
          process. Mounting  empirical       the main reasons for their failure   Asia Pacific  Journal of  Anthropology,
          evidence can guide new projects    is that resettlement sites are    10(4),    301-317.     https://doi.
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          affected communities.              access to and from other areas is   reconstruction: a model for population
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                                                                                              and
                                                                               displacement
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          clear from this simple drawing     collaborative  research  is funded  by   Cernea, M. M. (2008). Reforming the
          exercise was that  the housing     Scheme for Promotion of Academic   foundations of involuntary resettlement:
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          in the resettlement site of        (SPARC), a MHRD, Government       M. Mathur, (Eds.), Can compensation
          Perumbakkam was not an ideal       of  India  project  and  the DAIDA   prevent impoverishment? Reforming
                                                                               resettlement  through investments and
          one. It did not match with what    Foundation,  The Netherlands. We   benefit sharing (pp. 1-10). Oxford
          the women considered  their        would like to thank our participants   University Press.
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          attributes  of the housing units   dreams, and the students  from    work, a study of paid domestic workers
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