This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration
from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum
of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus.
Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate
change vulnerability and the environmental push factor. The book
establishes the interconnections between societal and environmental
vulnerability, and migration and capability, allowing appreciation of
migration in the frame of climate as a case of spatial and social
mobility, that is, as a strategy of persons and groups to deal with a
grossly unequal distribution of life chances across the world. In
their introduction, the editors fan out the current debate and state
the need to transcend predominantly policy-oriented approaches to
migration. The first section of the volume focuses on “Methodologies
and Methods” and presents very distinct approaches to think climate
induced migration. Subsequent chapters explore the sensitivity of
existing migration flows to climate change in Ghana and Bangladesh,
the complex relationship between migration, demographic change and
coping capacities in Canada, methodological challenges of a household
survey on the significance of migration and remittances for adaptation
in the Hindu Kush region and an econometric study of the aftermath of
the 1998 floods in Bangladesh. The second part, “Areas of Concern:
Politics and Human Rights”, deepens the analysis of discourses as
well as of the implications of proposed and implemented policies.
Contributors discuss such topics as environmental migration as a
multi-causal problem, climate migration as a consequence in an
alarmist discourse and climate migration as a solution. A study of an
integrated relocation program in Papua New Guinea is followed by
chapters on the promise and the flaws of planned relocation policy,
global policy on protection of environmental migrants including both
internallydisplaced peoples and those who cross international borders.
A concluding chapter places human agency at centre stage and explores
the interplay between human rights, capability and migration.
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ISBN
9789400762084
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok