Settler Colonialism

Settler Colonialism

Concept of Settler Colonialism

Settler Colonialism may be defined as: A process in which settlers come to Indigenous lands with purposes of occupying territory and forming a new community there. Removal, genocide, and/or assimilation of Indigenous Peoples is part of the process of settler colonialism. The primary motivations of settler colonialism are land acquisition and wealth accumulation, with the extraction of labor or resources as secondary objectives.(1) See more related entries to Settler Colonialism in this legal encyclopedia.

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  1. See: Lynette Russell, ed., Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies, Studies in Imperialism (Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2001), 2. Also, Patrick Wolfe, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (December 2006), 388.

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