Forced Displacement or Forced Migration is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. But the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) puts it more accurately as (people or communities) displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, generalised violence, or human rights violations. Forced displacement is not a concept that is alien to the Adivasis, the indigenous communities of India. In fact, having to deal with land alienation, being outcasted—treated as literal aliens in rehabilitated land, loss of access to and control over forests—is still very prevalent in our country to this day. One of the major causes of enforced migration is development and resource extraction projects. These vulnerable adivasi populations who have lived in the forests are traditionally dependent on forest resources for their subsistence, and displacement impacts their life and health and, most importantly, uproots their identities, much like the trees of their forests are in the case of many of these development projects.