TransRe Working Paper Series
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Climate change and migration are drawing increasing interest from researchers and policy makers, as well as from the general public. Much attention has been given to climate change as a push factor contributing to migration, and to the potential conflicts and humanitarian crises that may result.. The TransRe project offers a fresh perspective on the environment-migration nexus. It starts from the assumption that, regardless of the accuracy of the projections of future environmental changes, migration is already occurring and will continue to be a major dynamic of global change.
Migration is connecting people, transforming places, and facilitating flows of knowledge and resources, and thus creating networked and interconnected translocal spaces. Through this intensifying translocal connectedness, the ability of households and communities to respond to climatic risks and sustain their livelihoods and well-being – that is, their social resilience – has the potential to be strengthened. Our project focuses on resource-dependent households and rural communities that are particularly vulnerable to climate-related risks. We seek to decipher the relations between migration, translocality and social resilience to climate change. Our research design follows place-based as well as multi-sited fieldwork approaches and seeks to generate empirical evidence based on case studies carried out in Thailand and in the places of destination of migrants.
The working paper series aims to disseminate our most up to date research, stimulate discussion, and provoke feedback. TransRe working papers (WP) are typically works in progress and contain very early stage research, analysis, findings, and/or recommendations. There are four different types of working papers: 1) #Concepts - which analyzes more general or theoretical issues; 2) #Thesis - which will present bachelor and master's students' thesis work; 3) #Evidence - which will introduce more empirical information, and 4) #Methods - which explores ways in which to operationalize complex issues on the environment and migration.
Migration is connecting people, transforming places, and facilitating flows of knowledge and resources, and thus creating networked and interconnected translocal spaces. Through this intensifying translocal connectedness, the ability of households and communities to respond to climatic risks and sustain their livelihoods and well-being – that is, their social resilience – has the potential to be strengthened. Our project focuses on resource-dependent households and rural communities that are particularly vulnerable to climate-related risks. We seek to decipher the relations between migration, translocality and social resilience to climate change. Our research design follows place-based as well as multi-sited fieldwork approaches and seeks to generate empirical evidence based on case studies carried out in Thailand and in the places of destination of migrants.
The working paper series aims to disseminate our most up to date research, stimulate discussion, and provoke feedback. TransRe working papers (WP) are typically works in progress and contain very early stage research, analysis, findings, and/or recommendations. There are four different types of working papers: 1) #Concepts - which analyzes more general or theoretical issues; 2) #Thesis - which will present bachelor and master's students' thesis work; 3) #Evidence - which will introduce more empirical information, and 4) #Methods - which explores ways in which to operationalize complex issues on the environment and migration.
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migration
security threats
disaster risk management
climate change adaptation
nexus approach
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