Moving beyond stereotypes: the role of gender in the environmental change and human mobility nexus

Boas, Ingrid; Pater, Nine de; Furlong, Basundhara Tripathy

doi:10.1080/17565529.2022.2032565

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“…In addition, we find that rural female migrants have a higher intention to move permanently, which is consistent with the majority of the literature, mainly because rural male migrants are more stressed than females to live in the city, and females are more likely to achieve social-type mobility by forming families in the city [ 53 , 54 ]. Rural migrants with higher education levels have relatively higher employment levels and income levels in cities and towns, have relatively higher expected economic benefits from long-term residence and are more willing to move permanently [ 55 ].…”

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Voting with Your Feet: The Impact of Urban Public Health Service Accessibility on the Permanent Migration Intentions of Rural Migrants in China

Zhao

Song²,

Wang

2022

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The accessibility of urban public health services is not only relevant to the health status of rural migrants but also plays an increasingly important role in their migration decisions. Most existing studies have focused on the effects of the level of public health service provision and parity on rural migrants’ migration behavior, ignoring the role of public health service accessibility. This paper systematically examines the overall impact, heterogeneous impact and mechanism of action of public health service accessibility on rural migrants’ intentions to migrate permanently based on data from the 2017 China Mobile Population Dynamics Monitoring Survey using probit, IVprobit, eprobit, omitted variable test model and KHB mediating effect model. It was found that: (1) public health service accessibility significantly increased rural migrants’ intentions to migrate permanently, and the results remained robust after using instrumental variables to mitigate endogeneity problems and omitted variable tests. (2) Heterogeneity analysis shows that public health service accessibility has a greater effect on enhancing the intentions to migrate permanently among females and rural migrants born in 1980 and later. (3) Further mechanism testing revealed that public health service accessibility could indirectly increase rural migrants’ intentions to migrate permanently by improving health habits, health status, identity, and social integration, with identity playing a greater indirect effect. The findings of this paper not only provide empirical evidence for the existence of Tiebout’s “voting with your feet” mechanism in China but also contribute to the scientific understanding of the role of equalization of public health services in the process of population migration.

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Voting with Your Feet: The Impact of Urban Public Health Service Accessibility on the Permanent Migration Intentions of Rural Migrants in China

Zhao

Song²,

Wang

2022

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“…The incorporation of contextual vulnerability within the framework enables one to explore how vulnerability is socially differentiated and how it interacts with the AOS (Haasnoot et al 2020). For instance, by understanding how contextual vulnerability differs along lines of gender and ethnicity-based marginalization we can explore how this influences the risks populations are exposed to and the responses that are available to them (Thompson-Hall et al 2016, Boas et al 2022).…”

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“…In Kenya, the vulnerability that two women (Makena and Hadiya) experienced in the highlands was substantially reduced by relocating to a settlement with a high proportion of femaleheaded households, because this reduced the threat of violence to them. Although the roles of caste and gender in mediating vulnerability and adaptation practices is increasingly recognized (Sultana 2014, Rao et al 2020, Garcia et al 2021, they are often addressed insubstantially or seen as a narrow binary rather than intersectional and relational (Carr and Thompson 2014, Tavenner and Crane 2019, Garcia et al 2021, Boas et al 2022. Krishna (2010), in a cross-country study exploring people's movement into or out of poverty, discussed the interaction of more structural reasons with individual circumstances in explaining people's escape from or descend into poverty.…”

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Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions

Tebboth¹,

Singh²,

Spear³

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Dryland regions are highly dynamic environments in which multiple pressures intersect, threatening livelihood security. Mobility is an integral feature in these environments and represents a key risk management strategy for people to respond to frequent livelihood shocks and stresses. Global environmental change scholarship has tended to articulate spatial and temporal change inadequately, portraying populations in a way that belies their socially differentiated and inherently mobile livelihoods. We explored the role of mobility as an ongoing, "everyday" adaptive response to changing environmental, economic, and social conditions. We draw on 21 Life History (LH) interviews to explore the drivers and outcomes of people's mobility behavior in drylands of Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, and India. We present the adaptation option space (AOS) as a novel theoretical development to explore livelihood trajectories. Within our cases, we found that mobility was ubiquitous and facilitated changes to and exchanges within people's risk profiles in three main ways: novelty (risks gained or lost), modification (risks attenuated or accentuated), and no change. Temporal analysis showed three broad trajectories in people's lives set within broader structural constraints: upward, downward, and stable, depending on people's abilities to manage their AOS. The analysis confirmed that the AOS was a useful heuristic to understand how people exert agency to respond to an array of converging risks while negotiating broader drivers of change. Moreover, the data demonstrated how compounding shocks had negative impacts on people, highlighting the value of temporally-sensitive approaches.

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Rising Waters, Stagnant Paths: Gendered Experiences of Flooding and Restricted Mobility in Can Tho City, Viet Nam

Nizar,

Dang

2024

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Viet Nam’s response to its vulnerability to climate change impacts is marked by the integration of climate change concerns into sectoral laws. The Government of Viet Nam has also acknowledged the interlinkages of climate change, gender equality, and mobility within its climate regulatory framework. However, the focus on climate-related mobility has predominantly centred on macro-level mobility, which refers to the broad categorisation of migration, displacement, and planned relocation, with limited attention given to micro-level mobility. This chapter understands micro-level mobility as the smaller-scale and day-to-day movements which involve individual decisions regarding daily activities, destinations, and modes of travel. Furthermore, challenges remain in translating national commitments into local action, as evidenced by urban flooding in Can Tho City. Complex interactions between political, economic, social, and environmental elements contribute to recurring floods, with a disconnection between central Government commitments and local implementation, resulting in gendered impacts. Women in Can Tho City bear disproportionate impacts during recurring flood events, restricting their micro-level mobility in the household and public sphere. Women’s decision to remain during floods results from a complex interplay between risk perception, socio-economic elements which contribute to vulnerability, and limited macro-level mobility options. However, at the same time, these women also actively employ strategies to cope with their restricted mobility, which signifies their agency in negotiating the associated risks and adapting to recurring floods. These insights into women’s mobility behaviour during flooding offer a valuable starting point for policymakers to integrate gender and mobility, both at the macro and micro-level dynamics, into concrete climate actions. The findings also underscore the need to pay more attention to micro-level mobility within the climate-related mobility discourse.

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Moving beyond stereotypes: the role of gender in the environmental change and human mobility nexus

Cited by 10 publications

References 50 publications

Voting with Your Feet: The Impact of Urban Public Health Service Accessibility on the Permanent Migration Intentions of Rural Migrants in China

Voting with Your Feet: The Impact of Urban Public Health Service Accessibility on the Permanent Migration Intentions of Rural Migrants in China

Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for vulnerability and adaptation in dryland regions

Rising Waters, Stagnant Paths: Gendered Experiences of Flooding and Restricted Mobility in Can Tho City, Viet Nam

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