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Yi Hyun Kang, photo.

Yi Hyun Kang

Postdoctoral fellow

Yi Hyun Kang, photo.

Climate‐influenced migration in Bangladesh: The need for a policy realignment

Author

  • Maxmillan Martin
  • Yi hyun Kang
  • Motasim Billah
  • Tasneem Siddiqui
  • Richard Black
  • Dominic Kniveton

Summary, in English

Recent research into migration in Bangladesh has highlighted that people migrate for better livelihoods, not necessarily in response to climatic stresses and shocks. If facilitated appropriately, internal and international migration can help build adaptive capacity to future environmental and climatic hazards. In this framing, migration happens in the context of a growing city-centred economy that promotes remittances to villages. However, a textual analysis of current and recent policies concerning climate change, development and poverty alleviation, and disaster management shows that the economic and adaptive roles of internal migration are often not included in policy framing. We argue that if migration works as a positive step towards adaptation, then the key challenge is to align the policies with this new understanding.

Publishing year

2017

Language

English

Pages

357-379

Publication/Series

Development Policy Review

Volume

35

Issue

S2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley

Topic

  • Human Geography

Keywords

  • Climate change
  • migration
  • Bangladesh
  • policy analysis

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0950-6764