Bialaba Migrants from the Northern of Benin to Nigeria,  in Search of Productive Land—Insights for Living with  Climate Change

Dreier, Vanessa; Sow, Papa Gallo

doi:10.3390/su7033175

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“…First, in the 17 studies using a qualitative approach, migration is captured by explicitly selecting migrants or persons with migration experience as well as relevant informants (e.g., left-behind household members) as a subject of interview (e.g., Afifi, Sakdapolrak, and Warner 2012;Bleibaum 2008;Carr 2005;Dreier and Sow 2015;Wodon et al 2014). The degree of specification with regard to migration-related demographic background of the interviewees varies highly.…”

Section: Characterisation Of the Migration Componentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Veronis and McLeman (2014), for example, in their study of African migration to Canada, provide detailed information about their interviewees, including country of origin, length of stay, immigration status, and skills, and clearly delineate the criteria for the selection of the respondents for focus group interviews. Other studies are more unspecific, referring, for example, to places where people migrated to in the past (e.g., Dreier and Sow 2015) or to the places of origin (e.g., Afifi 2009).…”

Section: Characterisation Of the Migration Componentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The review shows that social networks and kinship ties play a crucial role for migration in the context of environmental change, particularly in terms of facilitating migration and influencing destination decisions (Bleibaum 2008;Carr 2005;Doevenspeck 2011;Dreier and Sow 2015;Findley 1994;van der Geest, Vrieling, and Dietz 2010;Haug 2002;Simatele and Simatele 2015). Bleibaum (2008) refers to the importance of ethnic-based networks that facilitate the migration from the studied village to the city and abroad.…”

Section: Social Network and Kinship Ties Act As Facilitators For Migmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Migration influenced by environmental change in Africa: A systematic review of empirical evidence

Borderon¹,

Sakdapolrak²,

Muttarak³

et al. 2019

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101

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BACKGROUND Despite an increase in scholarly and policy interest regarding the impacts of environmental change on migration, empirical knowledge in the field remains varied, patchy, and limited. Generalised discourse on environmental migration frequently oversimplifies the complex channels through which environmental change influences the migration process. OBJECTIVE This paper aims to systematise the existing empirical evidence on migration influenced by environmental change with a focus on Africa, the continent most vulnerable to climate change. METHODS

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Section: Characterisation Of the Migration Componentmentioning

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Section: Characterisation Of the Migration Componentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Network and Kinship Ties Act As Facilitators For Migmentioning

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Migration influenced by environmental change in Africa: A systematic review of empirical evidence

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et al. 2019

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“…The MOH expressed that without PopCAB, they would not have identified as rapidly or successfully the links between identified Lassa fever cases and the risk of where the outbreak could spread within the country and across borders. This sentiment was critical given the application in an environment with high cross-border movement (Dreier and Sow, 2015;International Centre for Migration Policy Development, 2015).…”

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An approach to integrate population mobility patterns and sociocultural factors in communicable disease preparedness and response

Merrill

Chabi

McIntyre

et al. 2021

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Complex human movement patterns driven by a range of economic, health, social, and environmental factors influence communicable disease spread. Further, cross-border movement impacts disparate public health systems of neighboring countries, making an effective response to disease importation or exportation more challenging. Despite the array of quantitative techniques and social science approaches available to analyze movement patterns, there continues to be a dearth of methods within the applied public health setting to gather and use information about community-level mobility dynamics. Population Connectivity Across Borders (PopCAB) is a rapidly-deployable toolkit to characterize multisectoral movement patterns through community engagement using focus group discussions or key informant interviews, each with participatory mapping, and apply the results to tailor preparedness and response strategies. The Togo and Benin Ministries of Health (MOH), in collaboration with the Abidjan Lagos Corridor Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adapted and applied PopCAB to inform cross-border preparedness and response strategies for multinational Lassa fever outbreaks. Initially, the team implemented binational, national-level PopCAB activities in March 2017, highlighting details about a circular migration pathway across northern Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. After applying those results to respond to a cross-border Lassa fever outbreak in February 2018, the team designed an expanded PopCAB initiative in April 2018. In eight days, they trained 54 MOH staff who implemented 21 PopCAB focus group discussions in 14 cities with 224 community-level participants representing six stakeholder groups. Using the newly-identified 167 points of interest and 176 routes associated with a circular migration pathway across Togo, Benin, and Nigeria, the Togo and Benin MOH refined their cross-border information sharing and collaboration processes for Lassa fever and other communicable diseases, selected health facilities with increased community connectivity for enhanced training, and identified techniques to better integrate traditional healers in surveillance and community education strategies. They also integrated the final toolkit in national- and district-level public health preparedness plans. Integrating PopCAB in public health practice to better understand and accommodate population movement patterns can help countries mitigate the international spread of disease in support of improved global health security and International Health Regulations requirements.

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“…While human mobility has, for centuries, been part of livelihoods in Africa (Mensah-Bonsu, 2003), it has become a major climate adaption strategy in recent years (Dreier & Sow, 2015;Teye & Owusu, 2015). There is enough evidence to suggest that migration is one of the most common and increasingly used strategies to cope with harsh climatic variations and natural disasters.…”

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Climate-Induced Migration in West Africa

Teye

Nikoi

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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Although West Africa’s contribution to global climate change is very minimal, its geographical location and weak adaptive capacity makes it highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability. The livelihoods of people in the dry regions of West Africa, in particular, are adversely affected by increased temperature and fluctuating rainfall patterns because they depend on rain-fed agriculture and ecosystem services. Flooding is also a common climate-induced hazard in some West African countries. However, only a few researchers have examined the nature of climate-induced migration in the sub-region. This chapter examines how migration is used as a strategy to deal with climate change and variability in West Africa. While it is difficult to separate climatic drivers from the socio-economic causes of migration, seasonal and permanent migration are increasingly used by households to deal with climate change and variability in some communities in West Africa. Floods have also caused population displacement in parts of West Africa. While human mobility occurs in response to changes in climatic variables, migration is not adequately incorporated into planned climate change adaptation strategies being implemented by governments in the sub-region. This chapter, therefore, recommends that migration should be incorporated into climate change adaptation and development policies and programs in the sub-region.

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Bialaba Migrants from the Northern of Benin to Nigeria, in Search of Productive Land—Insights for Living with Climate Change

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

Migration influenced by environmental change in Africa: A systematic review of empirical evidence

Migration influenced by environmental change in Africa: A systematic review of empirical evidence

An approach to integrate population mobility patterns and sociocultural factors in communicable disease preparedness and response

Climate-Induced Migration in West Africa

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