Mobility, multilocality and translocal development: changing livelihoods in the Karakoram

Benz, Andreas

doi:10.5194/gh-69-259-2014

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“…(Gioli et al, 2014, p. 256). Thus, by capturing the range and dynamics of household structures seen along a rural-urban continuum in south India, this paper adds to the literature on translocality and its impacts on household risk management and well-being Benz, 2014;Nguyen & Locke, 2014).…”

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Migration as a driver of changing household structures: implications for local livelihoods and adaptation

Singh

2019

Migration and Development

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Rapid environmental change, increasing climate variability, land fragmentation, and underlying institutional lacunae have shaped rural livelihoods in India. Increasingly, rural-urban migration has been a significant livelihood strategy to manage risks, meet aspirations, and move out of increasingly unprofitable agriculture. I argue that this movement of people is changing shape household structures, and the metrics to assess these transitions, often through categories of male-and female-headed households, fall short in understanding the experiences and outcomes of migration. Using a household survey (n = 825) and life history interviews (n = 16) to study rural-urban migration in South India, I demonstrate that shifting household configurations due to migration and commuting have implications for the risk management strategies people undertake. This calls for an expanded understanding of the 'household', which captures the realities of multi-local households, and consequently, for an expanded conceptualisation of 'local adaptation'. Such an understanding is sensitive to the 'beyond-local' flows and networks that shape household risk management behaviour and has implications for improving the effectiveness of climate change adaptation interventions.

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Migration as a driver of changing household structures: implications for local livelihoods and adaptation

Singh

2019

Migration and Development

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“…Overall, the study stresses the need for a deeper understanding of the role of translocal livelihood diversification for food security. While translocality has become an increasingly well-described phenomenon over the past years, it is necessary to acknowledge how it significantly changes rural livelihoods (Zoomers et al 2016) also in mountain regions (Kreutzmann 2012;Benz 2014;Gautam 2017). Findings from Ladakh depict typical processes, which have also been described for other areas within the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalayan region (Rasul et al 2016).…”

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Food Security and Translocal Livelihoods in High Mountains: Evidence from Ladakh, India

Dame

2018

Mountain Research and Development

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“…The overwhelming majority of these migrants went to Karachi, the city in Pakistan that is furthest from Gojal (Figure 1), a focus that has persisted to the present (Figure 4). This can be explained by the presence of the khoja Ismaili community in the city (Benz 2014b).…”

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Framing Modernization Interventions: Reassessing the Role of Migration and Translocality in Sustainable Mountain Development in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Benz

2016

Mountain Research and Development

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The Gojal region in northern Pakistan has a comparatively high level of development, virtually unparalleled in Pakistan's other mountain areas and rural periphery and representing a significant advance over the extreme poverty, recurrent famine, pervasive illiteracy, and feudal oppression that existed until the 1940s. This article analyzes the factors and conditions that made this possible. Various external modernization interventions by state and nonstate agencies, particularly by the Aga Khan Development Network, have been crucial in this respect. The significance of the framing of such interventions for their acceptance and successful implementation is analyzed for the Ismaili community of Gojal. Findings from this case study underline the central importance of local actors' agency and their proactive and creative response to the changing conditions and new opportunities created during modernizing interventions. Local households' mobility and migration strategies, in the context of sectoral and spatial livelihood diversification, have played a pivotal role in translating external modernization interventions into mountain development. Informed by recent debates on translocality, this article argues for a reassessment of the role of migration and translocality in development, a role that has often been underestimated or reduced to the effects of remittances. From this perspective, the transferability of Gojal's successful development to other mountain areas is discussed.

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Mobility, multilocality and translocal development: changing livelihoods in the Karakoram

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

Migration as a driver of changing household structures: implications for local livelihoods and adaptation

Migration as a driver of changing household structures: implications for local livelihoods and adaptation

Food Security and Translocal Livelihoods in High Mountains: Evidence from Ladakh, India

Framing Modernization Interventions: Reassessing the Role of Migration and Translocality in Sustainable Mountain Development in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

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