
Yi Hyun Kang
Postdoc

Climate‐influenced migration in Bangladesh: The need for a policy realignment
Författare
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.
Publiceringsår
2017
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
357-379
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Development Policy Review
Volym
35
Issue
S2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Human Geography
Nyckelord
- Climate change
- migration
- Bangladesh
- policy analysis
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0950-6764