In countries all around the world, involuntary resettlement has taken place to make way for various projects put in place to help a country develop economically. However, these projects have forced thousands of people from their homes and ways of life. One such example can be found by looking into the construction and oversight of a project funded by the World Bank to construct the Sobradinho Dam in Brazil. The location of the dam was placed such that over 60,000 people in both rural and urban locations had to be relocated (Cultural Survival, 2010). Due to oversight and a lack of safeguards in place to ensure proper implementation and management, those who are relocated are forced to adapt to a new lifestyle. Changing a person's everyday life can disrupt a large amount of certain cultural aspects around the world. Any person who is used to living off the land and has never had a need for money, is, by most government laws, owed a cash sum as a form of repayment; cash is not of any use to someone who could have easily kept living a normal life outside of normal cities and a certain way of life being encouraged and …show more content…
Farmers and those living without any need for a dam, were forced to live somewhere new because of the dam. With such a large impact to a large amount of people, the risk and reward factors of the project seem to have been skewed. By moving the dam to another location or properly relocating these 60,000 plus people, a controversy could have been avoided that would have resulted in a positive impact on the dam's output on the lives of the citizens of that country. As for proper relocation, ensuring that a stable place that could fully replace the way of life experienced by those impacted in not only daily tasks but with trade as well. Being 100 miles further away from an established trade route could prove to be a huge downfall for those who need supplies to