villagization

English

Alternative forms

• villagisation (UK and Commonwealth)

Etymology

From village +‎ -ization.

Noun

villagization (countable and uncountable, plural villagizations)

1. Resettlement of citizens into designated villages by governmental or military authorities.
   • 1955, R. W. Sorensen, Hansard, Fifth Series, Volume 542, Session 1955-56, 21 June, 1955, p. 1207,^[1]

     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.

   • 1991, Alex de Waal, Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia‎^[2], New York: Human Rights Watch, page 231:

     In late 1984, the Ethiopian government began a program of villagization which was intended to regroup the scattered homesteads, small hamlets and traditional villages of the entire countryside into a completely new pattern of grid-plan villages, laid out in accordance with central directives.

   • 2012, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2015, Chapter 13, 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.

Translations

Translations

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