What is your understanding of the term ‘dispossession’?

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What is your understanding of the term ‘dispossession’?

2007-01-12 21:59:20 · 3 answers · asked by Jason K 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History

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'Dispossession' means being ejected by legal or illegal force from that which you own or occupy. A whole nation of people may be dispossessed from their homeland by an invader. A family may be dispossessed of their home by court order, eg for failing to maintain mortgage payments.

2007-01-12 22:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋

To be "dispossessed" is to forcibly thrown off of land that one used to own. The Native Americans and the Australian Aborigines are both examples of peoples who were "dispossessed" by the European settlers.

2007-01-13 06:35:07 · answer #2 · answered by Jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Something possessed before but not anymore.

2007-01-13 09:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by Jeniv the Brit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋