Internal Displacement in Colombia: A Gendered Dilemma

Thousands of Colombians are forced to leave the house every year because they are broken up for over 40 years due to the annual violence every year. According to a recent field report by Refugee International, more than 130,000 people evacuate each year due to this domestic conflict. Some of these people passed Ecuador and Panama to find shelter, others were unable to leave their country or leave their country for various reasons. These internally displaced people (or because I am called internally displaced persons) are one of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Forced domestic evacuation is one of the most serious social, economic and humanitarian crises facing Colombia today. Establishing a reading club in Bogota's UnidaddeAtenciónIntegralal Desplazado (UAID) is a space for dialogue, reflection, critical reading, critical understanding of society, and Freire's "reading the world". At the Reading Club meeting, participants found places where they could freely share their concerns, needs, the fight they faced, and what they had experienced. General possibilities It provides space for connecting with real life. (Freire and Shor, 1987)

This article attempts to share the program of reading clubs developed for adult groups for readers when Colombian Bogota emigrated. It was developed in the context of forced domestic evacuation, a serious social situation where my country is suffering lately, and it has some impact on our current local educational practices. The reflection of this article focuses on both the critical theory of pedagogy and the experience of my teacher researcher who created and developed a reading club at Bogota's "Red de Solidaridad Social".

One of the most serious problems in Colombia is the "crisis of silence". This is the plight of internally displaced people (IDP). The scope of the problem is very big. Malicious confrontation between paramilitaries and guerrillas is the main reason for Colombian forced evacuation. In 1998, 300,000 people (mainly women and children) were driven out of their homes due to rural violence. NGO reports that Colombia is the fourth largest refugee in the world. In 1999, the USG provided $ 5.8 million to the International Red Cross Committee of the Western Hemisphere (ICRC) and 3 million dollars to Colombia. In addition, $ 4.7 million was donated to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) 's Western Hemisphere General Fund, some of which was used to develop institutional capacity in Colombia. Peace process