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A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change

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  • Hanne Wiegel
  • Ingrid Boas
  • Jeroen Warner

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Academic, political, and policy debates about the connection between environmental change and human migration have long focused on migration drivers and outcomes, resulting in a limited discussion between the discourses of “desolate climate refugees” and “environmental migrants as agents of adaptation.” These perspectives remain dominant, particularly in policy and media circles, despite academic critique and the recent emergence of more diverse approaches. In this intervention, we contribute to the recent turn in environmental migration research by seeking to better ground and pluralize our understanding of how environmental change and human mobility relate. We do so by offering a mobilities perspective that centers on the practices, motives, and experiences of mobility and immobility in the context of environmental change: When and why do people decide to move—or not to move—in response to environmental changes? How do they cope with migration pressures? Where do they move, under what conditions, and who can or must stay behind? This approach attends to the diverse aspirations and differential capabilities that underlie particular practices of movement or nonmovement, reflecting both individual characteristics as well as interconnections with uneven power relations across local, regional, and global scales. A mobilities approach offers a starting point for an expanded research agenda on environmental im/mobilities. This enables academic analysis and policy discussion of the human (im)mobility‐environmental change nexus to become better attuned to the actual practice and heterogeneous needs of those affected. This article is categorized under: Climate and Development > Social Justice and the Politics of Development Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

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  • Hanne Wiegel & Ingrid Boas & Jeroen Warner, 2019. "A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(6), November.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:wirecc:v:10:y:2019:i:6:n:e610
    DOI: 10.1002/wcc.610
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    1. Ekoh, Susan, 2024. "Exploring the influence of power on the governance of climate im/mobility in Accra and Dakar," IDOS Discussion Papers 10/2024, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    2. Martina Angela Caretta & Valeria Fanghella & Pam Rittelmeyer & Jaishri Srinivasan & Prajjwal K. Panday & Jagadish Parajuli & Ritu Priya & E. B. Uday Bhaskar Reddy & Cydney Kate Seigerman & Aditi Mukhe, 2023. "Migration as adaptation to freshwater and inland hydroclimatic changes? A meta-review of existing evidence," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 176(8), pages 1-22, August.
    3. Sichko, Christopher, 2024. "Migrant selection and sorting during the Great American Drought," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).
    4. Oakes, Robert & Van der Geest, Kees & Schraven, Benjamin & Adaawen, Stephen & Ayeb‐Karlsson, Sonja & de Sherbinin, Alexander & Etzold, Benjamin & Groth, Juliane & Hermanns, Kathleen & Lakeman, Silvana, 2023. "A future agenda for research on climate change and human mobility," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 61(5), pages 116-125.

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