Environmental Migration and Social Inequality

✍ Scribed by Robert McLeman, Jeanette Schade, Thomas Faist (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 240
Series: Advances in Global Change Research 61
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book presents contributions from leading international scholars on how environmental migration is both a cause and an outcome of social and economic inequality. It describes recent theoretical, methodological, empirical, and legal developments in the dynamic field of environmental migration research, and includes original research on environmental migration in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, and Turkey. The authors consider the implications of sea level rise for small island states and discuss translocality, gender relations, social remittances, and other concepts important for understanding how vulnerability to environmental change leads to mobility, migration, and the creation of immobile, trapped populations. Reflecting leading-edge developments, this book appeals to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and policymakers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Environment, Migration, and Inequality—A Complex Dynamic....Pages 3-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh....Pages 27-41
Shifting Rainfalls, Shifting Livelihoods: Seasonal Migration, Food Security and Social Inequality in Northern Ghana....Pages 43-56
Social and Spatial Inequality Linked to Flood-Induced Displacements in Burkina Faso in 2009 and 2010....Pages 57-72
Exploring the Relationship Between Social Inequality and Environmentally-Induced Migration: Evidence from Urban Household Surveys in Shanghai and Nanjing of China....Pages 73-90
Drought, Social Inequalities, Adaptation, and Farmers’ Mobility in the Konya Plain of Turkey....Pages 91-102
Environmental Influences on Haitian Migration to Canada and Connections to Social Inequality: Evidence from Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal....Pages 103-115
Social Inequality and International Migration Related to Climate Stressors: The Case of Mexico....Pages 117-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Hidden in Plain Sight: Social Inequalities in the Context of Environmental Change....Pages 131-149
Migration, Environment and Inequality: Perspectives of a Political Ecology of Translocal Relations....Pages 151-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Framing Labour Mobility Options in Small Island States Affected by Environmental Changes....Pages 167-187
The Arbitrary Project of Protecting Environmental Migrants....Pages 189-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Conclusion: Inequality and Migration as Adaptation—Where Do We Go from Here?....Pages 203-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-237

✦ Subjects

Environment, general

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