Waltz with development: insights on the developmentalization of climate-induced migration

Bettini, Giovanni; Gioli, Giovanna

doi:10.1080/21632324.2015.1096143

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“…The issue is moved away from the alarmist and politically tricky terrain of refugee politics and security (Warner, ), with explicit bridges built instead towards other fora concerned with disaster risk reduction, resilience and development (cf. Bettini and Gioli, ).…”

Section: Multi‐dimensional Climate Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Baldwin, ; Bettini, ; Bettini et al., ; Felli, ; Felli and Castree, ; Methmann and Oels, ; Turhan et al., ). To begin with, largely reproducing the optimistic position in the debates on ‘migration and development’ (Bettini and Gioli, ), the idea of migration as adaptation has nothing to do with a ‘no borders’ agenda. Rather, it aims at disciplining labour mobility, with circular and temporary migration presented as the most virtuous forms.…”

Section: Adaptation and The Biopolitics Of Climate Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Where Next? Climate Change, Migration, and the (Bio)politics of Adaptation

Bettini

2017

Global Policy

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The series of recent hecatombs in the Mediterranean, together with the regressive reactions we have witnessed in and around Europe, highlight the importance of posing the question of climate change and migration. Climate change will interact with a number of drivers of migration, and will hit hardest on the weakest and most exposed -which often include migrants as well as those too poor to move. However, how the climate-migration nexus can be addressed in fair and equitable ways (with what concepts, in what fora, through what policies) is far from a simple question. This intervention proposes two main arguments. First, a brief overview of recent debates suggests that we are still far from any progressive approaches to 'climate migration' -those that have emerged are different expressions of biopolitical discourses on sustainable development and resilience. Second, this intervention invites to reconsider the widely held and depoliticising assumption that climate migration is a 'problem to be solved' -for instance, by UNFCCC. Rather, the nexus should be seen as a set of open questions on different alternative climate futures, as well as a symptom of the irreducibly political tensions inherent in every form of mobility as much as in every attempt to discipline/govern it.

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Section: Multi‐dimensional Climate Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Adaptation and The Biopolitics Of Climate Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Where Next? Climate Change, Migration, and the (Bio)politics of Adaptation

Bettini

2017

Global Policy

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“…The dominant academic, political, and policy debates about the connection between environmental change and human migration have long focused on migration drivers and outcomes, rather than on the diverse practices and meanings attached to such movements. As demonstrated in previous review studies (see Bettini, ; Bettini & Gioli, ; Bettini, Nash, & Gioli, ), the focus of the debate has been characterized by a discursive divide between the so‐called “alarmist”/pessimistic positions predicting masses of “climate refugees” uprooted by environmental changes in the future, posing risks to the security and stability of the international community (e.g., Myers, ; for a critique see Hartmann, ), versus more “optimistic” voices that consider local and regional migrations an important strategy to adapt to environmental changes (Foresight, ; R. McLeman & Smit, ). These debates are based on different presumptions as to who moves, from where people move, the numbers of migrations, the direction of movement, and the distances migrants cover.…”

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confidence: 95%

A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change

Wiegel

Boas

Warner

2019

WIREs Climate Change

103

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Academic, political, and policy debates about the connection between environmental change and human migration have long focused on migration drivers and outcomes, resulting in a limited discussion between the discourses of “desolate climate refugees” and “environmental migrants as agents of adaptation.” These perspectives remain dominant, particularly in policy and media circles, despite academic critique and the recent emergence of more diverse approaches. In this intervention, we contribute to the recent turn in environmental migration research by seeking to better ground and pluralize our understanding of how environmental change and human mobility relate. We do so by offering a mobilities perspective that centers on the practices, motives, and experiences of mobility and immobility in the context of environmental change: When and why do people decide to move—or not to move—in response to environmental changes? How do they cope with migration pressures? Where do they move, under what conditions, and who can or must stay behind? This approach attends to the diverse aspirations and differential capabilities that underlie particular practices of movement or nonmovement, reflecting both individual characteristics as well as interconnections with uneven power relations across local, regional, and global scales. A mobilities approach offers a starting point for an expanded research agenda on environmental im/mobilities. This enables academic analysis and policy discussion of the human (im)mobility‐environmental change nexus to become better attuned to the actual practice and heterogeneous needs of those affected. This article is categorized under: Climate and Development > Social Justice and the Politics of Development Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

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“…On the positive side, women take control on household economic affairs (selling of agriculture produce) that traditionally were controlled by men. On the other side, there is an increasing feminisation of labour where women are forced to bear more responsibility for agriculture activities, particularly in the mountain region where male outmigration is high (Bettini and Gioli 2015). Bhattarai et al (2015) share similar findings that at least one man from each household in the mountain region has migrated to Gulf Cooperation Council countries or Malaysia.…”

Section: Nepal-climate Variabilitymentioning

confidence: 81%