Environmental Migration and Social Inequality

1. Front Matter

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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

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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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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.

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

• Dept. of Geography and Env. Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

  Robert McLeman

• Bielefeld University, Center on Migration, Citizenship & Development, Bielefeld, Germany

  Jeanette Schade, Thomas Faist

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