villagization

Alternative forms

 * (UK and Commonwealth)

Noun

 * 1) Resettlement of citizens into designated villages by governmental or military authorities.
 * 2) * 1955,, , Fifth Series, Volume542, Session1955-56, 21June, 1955, p.1207,
 * Other developments are taking place in Malaya. Naturally, villagisation is at first often resisted by those who are compelled to live in the new villages; nobody likes being torn up by the roots.
 * 1) * 2012,, In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2015, Chapter13, p.36,
 * Villagization, the innocuous name the colonial state gave to the forced internal displacement, was sprung on the Kenyan people in 1955, but living within the walls of the school, I had not heard about the agents of the state bulldozing people’s homes or torching them when the owners refused to participate in the demolition.
 * Villagization, the innocuous name the colonial state gave to the forced internal displacement, was sprung on the Kenyan people in 1955, but living within the walls of the school, I had not heard about the agents of the state bulldozing people’s homes or torching them when the owners refused to participate in the demolition.

Translations

 * Finnish: pakkosiirto kyliin
 * French: villagisation
 * German: Zwangsverdorfung
 * Polish: przymusowa emigracja na wieś