Managing livelihood in displacement: the politics of land ownership and embodied health and well-being by senior women in Kenya.

Abstract

Abstract This chapter focuses on the interrelationships between land dispossession, climate variability, and the health and well-being of displaced senior women involved in care responsibilities for their offspring and grandchildren in Kenya. The chapter is divided into two sections: the first describes the history of the land tenure system in Kenya from the colonial to the post-independence eras, which exacerbated the land dispossession problem through forced evictions and displacement. Analyzing these historical processes is essential to addressing the causes of land injustice in Kenya, as well as to illustrating how these injustices continue to affect the health and well-being of senior women, which is the focus in the second section. Understanding these issues is important in tackling deprivations and vulnerability that women and children face, and for addressing deeper root causes of poverty.