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Re-Conceptualizing the Impact of Development on Childcare: The Volta River Project and the Child Survival Challenge in Dzemeni

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Résumé

Developpment industriel grâce à la production d’électricité bon marché. Lors de son lancement,
le projet a bénéficie d’un program de réinstallation AXÉ sur les populations et de restauration
des moyens d’existence, qui a été Abandonnee. Les Toung Tongu, qui constituaient plus de
80% des déplacés, ont été confrontés a une dislocation socio-culturelle et économique sans
compensation adéquate. Dans la Littérature «deplacements et appauvrissement» induite par
le développement, il existe un fossé de contenu et de connaissances, notamment des modèles
théoriques de l’impact sur la garde d’enfants. En tant que tel, le présent document propose deux
modèles qui mettent l’accent sur les effets du deplacement sur les pratiques de garde d’enfants de
mères appauvries qui ont des Roles multiples a assumer. Il s’agit d’une comprehension a établie
des effets économiques et de l’appauvrissement emotional et de la dislocation socio-culturelle du
deplacement du projet de développement comme Dzemeni dépeint dans l’etude.

Re-Conceptualizing the Impact of Development on Childcare: The Volta River Project and the Child Survival Challenge in Dzemeni

Ghana’s most prestigious energy infrastructural project, the Volta River Project (VRP),
aimed to trigger industrial development through the generation of cheap electricity.
At its initiation, the project had a people-oriented resettlement and livelihoods
restoration programme, which was abandoned. The Tongu Ewe who constituted more
than 80 per cent of those displaced, have faced socio-cultural and economic dislocation
without adequate compensation. Within the Development-Induced ‘Displacement
and Impoverishment’ literature a content and knowledge gap especially theoretical
models of the impact on child care. As such, this paper proposes two models that focus
on the effects of displacement on childcare practices of impoverished mothers who have
assumed multiple roles. This is to establish an understanding of the economic and
emotional effects of impoverishment and socio-cultural dislocation from development
project displacement as the study in Dzemeni portrays.

Mots-clés

frais de garde d’enfants Meres appauvries Tongu Ewe migrants Dzemeni Développement-induit-deplacement Impact sur le développement des enfants

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