Migration, housing &amp; disaster: Risk reduction and creation in Southern Italy's Apennines

Guadagno, Lorenzo; Guadagno, Eleonora

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102305

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“…Owing to barriers to information, resources and aid, migrants are more vulnerable than natives during crises (Guadagno et al. , 2017).…”

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Caught in crises: Syrian refugees in Türkiye’s labor market

Mohammed

2024

IJMHSC

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Purpose This study aims to analyze the factors driving Syrian refugees into the informal labor market in Türkiye despite the existence of regulations and programs to facilitate their integration into the formal labor market. Design/methodology/approach This study presents results from a literature review of secondary sources and primary data collection through semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders and Syrian refugees. Findings The study shows that the implementation of policies and programs to boost formal employment among refugees has yielded limited results. Many refugees continue to operate within the informal economy. This informality is due to various socio-economic challenges, including anti-refugee sentiments, geographical restrictions and economic crises. The 2023 twin earthquakes have further exacerbated the vulnerable situation of refugees, intensifying the difficulty of achieving self-reliance. Research limitations/implications The study’s drawbacks include a small sample size. This implies that the sample is not representative; therefore, results may lack generalizability. Practical implications The study’s findings could stimulate greater engagement in public policy, facilitate the management of public perceptions regarding refugees and provide support to the private sector, all to enhance the integration of Syrian refugees into the formal labor market. Originality/value This study addresses crucial areas previously unexplored, including the impact of economic and natural disaster crises on the labor market integration of refugees. To the best of the author’s knowledge, by investigating these factors for the first time, this study offers novel insights into their influence on refugees’ labor market integration.

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“…Owing to barriers to information, resources and aid, migrants are more vulnerable than natives during crises (Guadagno et al. , 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Owing to barriers to information, resources and aid, migrants are more vulnerable than natives during crises (Guadagno et al, 2017). The Syrian refugees, who mostly live in poorly constructed buildings and apartments, particularly on basement floors, were significantly impacted.…”

Section: Post-earthquake and Informal Labor Marketmentioning

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Caught in crises: Syrian refugees in Türkiye’s labor market

Mohammed

2024

IJMHSC

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“…Concepts often used as synonyms (such as 'climate refugees', 'climate migrants', 'environmental refugees', 'environmental migrants' and 'environmental displaced persons', or other mediatic definitions, such as 'tsunami refugees', 'famine refugees' or 'nuclear refugees') and referred to phenomena broadly linked with human mobility owing to environmental degrada-tion or climate change, create a misleading representation of a phenomenon. As previously highlighted, environmental factors are very difficult to isolate as the sole drivers of movements (Gentle et al 2018;Guadagno and Guadagno 2021). This much was clear already to Myers (1994, p. 7): 'It is often difficult, however, to differentiate between refugees driven by environmental factors and those impelled by economic problems'.…”

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Environment-related human mobility

2022

Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics

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The idea that global warming and its negative consequences will lead to migration fluxes from the Global South to Northern countries seems to be a common refrain recited by political leaders, international organizations, media and scientists. Nonetheless, if there is strong evidence concerning the environmental and social impacts of climate change, its consequences in respect of massive migration from 'poor' to 'rich' countries, remain very controversial: and even if could be sound tautologically, the difficulties in identifying this phenomenon cast doubts on the basis of the phenomenon itself (Baldwin and Bettini 2017, among others).The vagueness of the concepts used in defining the scope and nature of climate-related mobility, the lack of legally adopted definitions and the differences in the methodologies used to produce statistics and scenarios, create an enormous debate, not only within public opinion, but also in academia. Furthermore, this vagueness, compounded by statistical biases (the available data are insufficient or only cover specific geographical areas or environmental drivers), undermines the possibility of using reliable and comparable datasets to produce scientific analyses over different temporal and spatial scales (Zetter 2007).All this constitutes a key problem in the recognition/misrecognition of the phenomenon of mobility related to climate/environment, 1 and brings about significant research, policy and operational challenges to distinctly define different categories of mobile people -which has, in turn, implications on potential legal protection and assistance regimes that could be applicable to the different groups in an increasingly security-obsessed world. Even the 2018 United Nations (UN) Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, adopted by 164 countries, identifies climate change as a driver of migration and promotes international cooperation in order to implement governance measures addressed to people who are moving because of natural hazards and climate change.While data are still lacking, gloomy projections about the global scale of climate-related mass migration tend to be misleading as they are often based on little evidence and only rarely take into account the role of adaptation in exposed communities.The more pressing questions, even if they could appear rhetorical, to clarify the issue seem to be:• How many people are involved in 'climate/environment-related human mobility'? • Which categories of people? • When will they move? • Where will they go? It could also be interesting to understand how the issue of 'climate/environment-related human mobility' is constructed and who is responsible for its definition. These questions help shed light on the complexity of this phenomenon which, owing to its ties with environmental,

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“…Migrants' vulnerability at times of disaster was mentioned as early as 1999 (Morrow, 1999; Donner and Rodríguez, 2008). A number of works examine disaster vulnerability and the capacities of international migrants in the event of a disaster (Morrow, 1999; Montz, Allen, and Monitz, 2011; Maldonado et al, 2016; Thorup‐Binger and Charania, 2019; Roncancio, Cutter, and Nardocci, 2020), as well as the need to consider disaster risk reduction for migrants (Guadagno, Fuhrer, and Twigg, 2017). Studies focus on, for example, the connection between migrants' socioeconomic position and their recovery from disaster (Myers, Slack, and Singelmann, 2008; McAuliffe and Triandafyllidou, 2021), their communication and language difficulties, and their employment of diasporic transnational ties in coping with a disaster (Zhang, Le Dé, and Charania, 2021).…”

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The significance of local government in disaster management for international migrants: the case of Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture

Kobayashi

2024

Disasters

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Disaster research predominantly focuses on citizens, not on migrants. This tilted spotlight needs to be readjusted, since many advanced countries around the world have become immigration countries, and safeguarding the lives of migrants at times of disaster has become an important and immediate policy issue. Hence, this research concentrates on disaster management to protect the lives of migrants in a disaster‐prone and de facto immigration country. The particular country and event in question are Japan and the northern Osaka earthquake of June 2018. More than 100 migrants who lived near the earthquake's epicentre rushed to an evacuation shelter managed by the local municipal government of Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture. While non‐governmental organisations attract more attention, this paper centres on a local government and demonstrates the key role that it can play in both bridging and building networks across different communities, and thus in safeguarding the lives of migrants at times of disaster.

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Migration, housing & disaster: Risk reduction and creation in Southern Italy's Apennines

Cited by 7 publications

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Caught in crises: Syrian refugees in Türkiye’s labor market

Caught in crises: Syrian refugees in Türkiye’s labor market

Environment-related human mobility

The significance of local government in disaster management for international migrants: the case of Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture

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