Cultivating Engagements: Ethnic Minority Migrants, Agriculture, and Environment in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Head, Lesley; Klocker, Natascha; Dun, Olivia; Aguirre‐Bielschowsky, Ikerne

doi:10.1080/24694452.2019.1587286

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“…Labor movement leaves those economies experiencing net out-migration with lower levels of working-age adults, and potentially with skills shortages and reduced public revenue, while at the same time, remittances of finance from overseas migrants provide funds for investments. There is some evidence that the aggregation of all migration economic affects (meeting skills gaps, remittance flows, brain drain, and return migration) are net positive and many times the benefits of international trade deregulation ( 26 , 27 ).…”

Section: Sustainable Development and Migration Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other studies suggest that immigrant populations exhibit pro-social and pro-environmental behaviors as part of identity formation and for integration into host societies ( 31 ). Head et al ( 26 ) document how immigrant populations build new hybrid identities through bringing food cultures and agricultural practices into urban Australia. At the same time, the impacts of emigration affect the prospects for sustainability.…”

Section: Sustainable Development and Migration Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Migration and sustainable development

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Fransen,

Safra de Campos

et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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To understand the implications of migration for sustainable development requires a comprehensive consideration of a range of population movements and their feedback across space and time. This Perspective reviews emerging science at the interface of migration studies, demography, and sustainability, focusing on consequences of migration flows for nature-society interactions including on societal outcomes such as inequality; environmental causes and consequences of involuntary displacement; and processes of cultural convergence in sustainability practices in dynamic new populations. We advance a framework that demonstrates how migration outcomes result in identifiable consequences on resources, environmental burdens and well-being, and on innovation, adaptation, and challenges for sustainability governance. We elaborate the research frontiers of migration for sustainability science, explicitly integrating the full spectrum of regular migration decisions dominated by economic motives through to involuntary displacement due to social or environmental stresses. Migration can potentially contribute to sustainability transitions when it enhances well-being while not exacerbating structural inequalities or compound uneven burdens on environmental resources.

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Section: Sustainable Development and Migration Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sustainable Development and Migration Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration and sustainable development

Adger,

Fransen,

Safra de Campos

et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The frictions and encounters of the migration process provide real-time experiments in alternative ways of doing things. Migrants coming from diverse ancestries, ethnic groups and life histories bring different experiences, worldviews and environmental behaviours to those of the established populations of their destination countries (Head et al, 2019). The cultural partiality of Western environmentalism extends to the way these later migrants have been viewed.…”

Section: Beyond the Whiteness Of Greenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Green: Human–environment geographies for the ‘new’ century

Head

2022

Environment and Planning F

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The disciplinary heritage of examining human–environment relationships continues to be vital but needs continual updating. In the Australian context, four threads of work can make key contributions in the next few decades: (1) recognising the depth of colonial heritage in 20th-century environmental thought, (2) supporting new Indigenous Geographies, (3) articulating environmental imaginaries beyond the settler-Indigenous binary and (4) responding to precarity and volatility with new ecologies. These threads each have distinct research trajectories – in terms of both their heritage in Geography and their development this century. They nevertheless have in common significant potential to help the discipline address the central shared challenge of contemporary life: facing climate change with commitments to justice. I consider wider implications, including three risks we need to be alert to. One risk is eco-fascism. Another is the re-naturalisation of environmental change as climate change impacts are exacerbated. The third is the amount of energy that needs to go into analysing and negotiating our volatile institutional contexts, potentially at the expense of what we have hitherto understood as core scholarly business.

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“…One further theme which vegetal geographers are closely engaging with is that of affect and care, building especially on the work of Puig de la Bellacasa (2017). Choreographies of care for plants have notably been examined in agricultural contexts (Graddy-Lovelace, 2020; Head et al, 2019; Krzywoszynska, 2015; Mincytė et al, 2020). Since care in agriculture has typically been focused on animal bodies, these accounts take up the particular challenges presented by the alterity of plants; how agricultural workers learn to be affected by plants over time (Krzywoszynska, 2015).…”

Section: Vegetal Geographymentioning

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Listening to plants: Conversations between critical plant studies and vegetal geography

Lawrence

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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Attention to plant life is currently flourishing across the social sciences and humanities. This paper introduces recent work in the informal sub-discipline of ‘vegetal geography’, placing it into conversation with the transdisciplinary field of ‘critical plant studies’ [CPS], a broad framework for re-evaluating plants and human-plant interactions informed by principles of agency, ethics, cognition and language. I explore three key themes of interest to multispecies scholars looking to attend more closely to vegetal life, namely: (1) plant otherness; (2) plant ethics; (3) plant-human attunements, in the hope of encouraging greater cross-pollination between more-than-human geography and critical plant studies.

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Cultivating Engagements: Ethnic Minority Migrants, Agriculture, and Environment in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

Migration and sustainable development

Migration and sustainable development

Beyond Green: Human–environment geographies for the ‘new’ century

Listening to plants: Conversations between critical plant studies and vegetal geography

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