Environmental Migration and Social Inequality

This book presents contributions from leading international scholars on how environmental migration is both a cause and an outcome of social and economic inequality. It describes recent theoretical, methodological, empirical, and legal developments in the dynamic field of environmental migration research, and includes original research on environmental migration in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, China, Ghana, Haiti, Mexico, and Turkey. The authors consider the implications of sea level rise for small island states and discuss translocality, gender relations, social remittances, and other concepts important for understanding how vulnerability to environmental change leads to mobility, migration, and the creation of immobile, trapped populations. Reflecting leading-edge developments, this book appeals to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and policymakers.

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1. Introduction: Environment, Migration, and Inequality A Complex Dynamic.- 2. Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh.- 3. Shifting Rainfalls, Shifting Livelihoods: Seasonal Migration, Food Security and Social Inequality in Northern Ghana.- 4. Social and Spatial Inequality Linked to Flood-Induced Displacements in Burkina Faso in 2009 and 2010.- 5. Exploring the Relationship between Social Inequality and Environmentally-induced Migration: Evidence from Urban Household Surveys in Shanghai and Nanjing of China.- 6. Drought, Social Inequalities, Adaptation, and Farmers' Mobility in the Konya Plain of Turkey.- 7. Environmental Influences on Haitian Migration to Canada and Connections to Social Inequality: Evidence from Ottawa-Gatineau and Montreal.- 8. Social Inequality and International Migration Related to Climate Stressors: The Case of Mexico Kerstin Schmidt.- 9. Hidden in Plain Sight: Social Inequalities in the Context of Environmental Change.- 10. Migration, Environment and Inequality: Perspectives of a Political Ecology of Translocal Relations.- 11. Framing Labour Mobility Options in Small Island States Affected by Environmental Changes.- 12. The Arbitrary Project of Protecting Environmental Migrants.- 13. Conclusion: Inequality and Migration as Adaptation Where do we go from here?.- Afterword: Social Inequality and Justice Triggered by the Anthropocene: An historical view.- Index.