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Environmental Migration and Social Inequality

  • Robert McLeman
  • Jeanette Schade
  • Thomas Faist

Benefits

  • Presents leading-edge research on the link between environmental migration and social/economic inequality

  • Offers new empirical evidence on environmental migration dynamics from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, and Turkey

  • Provides an excellent entry point for scholars and researchers new to the study of environmental migration

Book

Part of the Advances in Global Change Research book series (AGLO, volume 61)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Environment, Migration, and Inequality—A Complex Dynamic
      Robert McLeman, Thomas Faist, Jeanette Schade
      Pages 3-23

  3. Empirical Investigations

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 25-25
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    2. Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh
      Benjamin Etzold, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, Selim Reza Hassan, Sharmind Neelormi, Tamer Afifi
      Pages 27-41
    3. Shifting Rainfalls, Shifting Livelihoods: Seasonal Migration, Food Security and Social Inequality in Northern Ghana
      Benjamin Schraven, Christina Rademacher-Schulz
      Pages 43-56
    4. Social and Spatial Inequality Linked to Flood-Induced Displacements in Burkina Faso in 2009 and 2010
      Véronique Lassailly-Jacob, Malika Peyraut
      Pages 57-72
    5. Exploring the Relationship Between Social Inequality and Environmentally-Induced Migration: Evidence from Urban Household Surveys in Shanghai and Nanjing of China
      Yan Tan, Xuchun Liu, Graeme Hugo
      Pages 73-90
    6. Drought, Social Inequalities, Adaptation, and Farmers’ Mobility in the Konya Plain of Turkey
      Gülçin Erdi Lelandais
      Pages 91-102
    7. Environmental Influences on Haitian Migration to Canada and Connections to Social Inequality: Evidence from Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal
      Amina Mezdour, Luisa Veronis, Robert McLeman
      Pages 103-115
    8. Social Inequality and International Migration Related to Climate Stressors: The Case of Mexico
      Kerstin Schmidt
      Pages 117-128

  4. Methodological Reflections

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 129-129
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    2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Social Inequalities in the Context of Environmental Change
      Brooke A. Ackerly
      Pages 131-149
    3. Migration, Environment and Inequality: Perspectives of a Political Ecology of Translocal Relations
      Clemens Greiner, Patrick Sakdapolrak
      Pages 151-163

  5. Policy Reflections

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 165-165
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    2. Framing Labour Mobility Options in Small Island States Affected by Environmental Changes
      Elisa Fornalé, Jeremie Guélat, Etienne Piguet
      Pages 167-187
    3. The Arbitrary Project of Protecting Environmental Migrants
      Benoît Mayer
      Pages 189-200

  6. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 201-201
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    2. Conclusion: Inequality and Migration as Adaptation—Where Do We Go from Here?
      Jeanette Schade, Thomas Faist, Robert McLeman
      Pages 203-228
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 229-237
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Environmental Migration Climate Change Vulnerability Socio-economic Inequality Climate Adaptation Mobility

Editors and affiliations

  • Robert McLeman
    • 1
  • Jeanette Schade
    • 2
  • Thomas Faist
    • 3
  1. 1.Dept. of Geography and Env. StudiesWilfrid Laurier UniversityWaterlooCanada
  2. 2.Bielefeld UniversityCenter on Migration, Citizenship & DevelopmentBielefeldGermany
  3. 3.Bielefeld UniversityCenter on Migration, Citizenship & DevelopmentBielefeldGermany

Bibliographic information

  • Book Title Environmental Migration and Social Inequality
  • Editors Robert McLeman
    Jeanette Schade
    Thomas Faist
  • Series Title Advances in Global Change Research
  • Series Abbreviated Title Adv.Global Change Res.
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25796-9
  • Copyright Information Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Earth and Environmental Science Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
  • Hardcover ISBN 978-3-319-25794-5
  • Softcover ISBN 978-3-319-79841-7
  • eBook ISBN 978-3-319-25796-9
  • Series ISSN 1574-0919
  • Series E-ISSN 2215-1621
  • Edition Number 1
  • Number of Pages XIV, 237
  • Number of Illustrations 12 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
  • Topics Environment, general
  • Buy this book on publisher's site