![]() ![]() Internal displacement in Colombia: fifteen distinguishing features. Shultz JM, Gómez Ceballos AM, Espinel Z, Rios Oliveros S, Fonseca MF, Hernandez Florez LH. Papers of particular interest, published recently, have been highlighted as: Trauma and loss are experienced differentially throughout the pathway of displacement. Trauma signature analysis, an evidence-based method that elucidates the physical and psychological consequences associated with exposures to harm and loss during disasters and complex emergencies, was used to identify the psychological risk factors and potentially traumatic events experienced by conflict-displaced persons in Colombia, stratified across the phases of displacement. The displacement trajectory for displaced persons in Colombia proceeds through a sequence of stages: (1) pre-expulsion threats and vulnerability, (2) expulsion, (3) migration, (4) initial adaptation to relocation, (5) protracted resettlement (the end point for most forced migrants), and, rarely, (6) return to the community of origin. ![]() Colombia has ranked either first or second in the number of internally displaced persons for 10 years, a consequence of decades of armed conflict compounded by high prevalence of drug trafficking. While conflict-induced forced migration is a global phenomenon, the situation in Colombia, South America, is distinctive. ![]()
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