This book will provide a space for new and emergent research in environmental migration, particularly in the context of a world beginning to emerge from the grip of a debilitating public health crisis that kept many firmly rooted in place while displacing others internationally. With famines, vast wildfires, droughts, and record heatwaves uprooting human settlements internationally, research on migration in the face of emerging risks is all the more urgent. As Balsari, Dresser, & Leaning point out, “the wall-building, xenophobic, and insular” platforms of some global powers in their immigration and asylum policies, and the ever-increasing stresses placed on the natural world that continue to make sites of human settlement less and less hospitable, make research on this topic both very timely and much needed. This book will include numerous case studies, historical analyses, projections, models, and recommendations for both policy and future research directions. Contributions are drawn from academics and practitioners in this fertile interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry, and each one focuses on the intersection of population and environment studies, history, geography, law, diaspora studies, economics, public health, and sociology.
This book is composed of five clear sections. The introductory section includes one chapter that presents an overview of the current landscape, the scope and objectives of the book, as well as its specific approach and the various themes. The concluding section is composed of one chapter that presents a global map of recent innovations drawing together some of the core themes discussed throughout the book. The concluding chapter synthesizes the challenges and opportunities presented, and the possible future directions that researchers, practitioners, and regulators could and should move towards.
Author(s): Thomas Walker, Jane McGaughey, Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi, Victoria Kelly
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 187
City: London
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I Introduction
1 Migration in the Face of Emerging Risks: An Introduction
Introduction
Overview of Content
Part I: Patterns and Legacies—Historical Case Studies
Part II: Methodological Interventions and Models
Part III: Risk and Vulnerability: Intersecting Migration Studies
References
Part II Patterns and Legacies: Historical Case Studies
2 Infusing the Globe: Yerba Mate, Polish Immigration, and Creolization in Southern Brazil (c.1870–1920)
Introduction
From Eastern Europe to Southern Brazil
Yerba Mate and the Caboclização of Polish Immigrants
Conclusion
Sources
3 Coffee Plantations and Irish Migration to Santiago de Cuba: A Historical Case Study of Radical Environmental Transformation
Introduction
From Irish Migrants to Cuban-Creole Landowners and Planters
Conclusion
Archival Sources
Part III Methodological Interventions and Models
4 The Need for Better Data: Climate-Induced Mobility, Urbanization, and Procedural Injustices in Zambia
Introduction
Three Problems of Datasets for Internal Climate-Induced Mobility
Temporal Limitation of Census Data
Spatial Limitation of Census Data
Socio-Economic Limitations
Datasets and Internal Migration in Zambia
Climate-Induced Mobility in Zambia
Limitations in Current Data Collection Methods in Zambia
Poor Population Monitoring of Informal Settlements
Improving Datasets on Internal Migration with a Procedural Justice Approach
Climate or Economic Migration?
Technical Implications of Standardization for Census Methods on Migration
Financial and Political Implications of Standardization for Census Methods on Migration
Conclusion
References
5 Leveraging Labor Migration and Migrant Remittances in Nepal
Introduction
Relationship with Agriculture, Environmental Migration, and Labor Migration
Benefits of Migration
Drawbacks of Migration
Discouraged Growth of the Local Economy
Workplace Casualties and Exploitations
Uncertainty of Foreign Employment
Policies and Programs in Migrant Remittance Management
Ways Forward
Conclusion
References
6 The Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Existing Patterns of Migration
Introduction
Exposure and Vulnerability
Pre-Inundation Impacts of Sea-Level Rise
Extreme Sea-Level Events
Erosion
Flooding
Salinization
Pre-Existing Drivers of Migration and Patterns of Population Mobility
Thresholds—And the Limits of Historic Analogy
Modeling Complex Systems of Population Mobility
Conclusion
References
Part IV Risk and Vulnerability: Intersecting Migration Studies
7 Climate Migration and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Introduction
Brief Introduction to Disability and the Human Rights Model
Impact of Climate Change and Other Environmental Factors on Persons with Disabilities
Literature Related to Climate Migration and Persons with Disabilities
Good Practices
Recommendations
References
8 Compounding Risks and Increased Vulnerabilities: Climate Change, Conflict, and Mobility in East Africa
Introduction
Study Area
The Effects of Climatic Change on Human Mobility
Characterizing Human Mobility in East Africa
Complex and Compounding Vulnerability in Somalia
Interventions
Conclusion
References
9 Building a Critical, Place-Based Approach to Climate Displacement: A Future Agenda for Research, Planning, and Practice
Introduction
Place Attachment & Place Disruption in Climate Displacement
Contesting & Resisting Planned Displacement with Place-Based Community Action & Science: The Case of Fairbourne, Wales
Pursuing Critical Place-Based Planning for Climate Displacement
Critical Climate Displacement Research: Multidisciplinary, Multi-Scalar, and Situated
Intersectionality as a Tool for Critical Climate Displacement Planning
Conclusion
References
Index
