Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management
- Autor(en)
- Gunnar Stange, Raffaella Pagogna, Harald Sterly, Patrick Sakdapolrak, Marion Borderon, Benjamin Schraven, Diogo Andreola Serraglio
- Abstrakt
In the debates over environmental impacts on migration, migration as adaptation has been acknowledged as a potential risk management strategy based on risk spreading and mutual insurance of people living spatially apart: Migrants and family members that are left behind stay connected through a combination of financial and social remittances, joint decision-making, and mutual commitment. Conceptualizing migration as adaptation through the lens of translocal livelihood systems enables us to identify the differentiated vulnerabilities of households and communities. COVID-19 and the restrictions on public life and mobility imposed by governments worldwide constituted a complex set of challenges for translocal systems and strategies, especially in the Global South. Focusing on examples, we highlight two points: First, the COVID-19 crisis shows the limits of migration and translocal livelihoods for coping with, and adapting to, climate and environmental risks. Second, as these restrictions hit on a systemic level and affect places of destination as well as origin, the crisis reveals specific vulnerabilities of the translocal livelihood systems themselves. Based on the translocal livelihoods approach, we formulate insights and recommendations for policies that move beyond the narrow, short-term focus on the support of migrant populations alone and address the longer-term root causes of the vulnerabilities in translocal livelihoods systems.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
- Journal
- ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
- Band
- 16
- Seiten
- 157-169
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 13
- ISSN
- 1999-2521
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0093
- Publikationsdatum
- 06-2023
- ÖFOS 2012
- 504021 Migrationsforschung, 509023 Entwicklungsforschung
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Geography, Planning and Development, Cultural Studies, Communication, Development, Anthropology, Law, Sociology and Political Science
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten, SDG 1 – Keine Armut, SDG 3 – Gesundheit und Wohlergehen
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/525a1bb7-97e3-458a-b3c6-aff3dfe6c9fe