Disentangling the migration-development nexus using QCA

Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences

“…Alternatives centred on a longer-term process of engaged monitoring and learning, across different spatio-temporal scales, offers different insights. These methodological reflections from studies of pastoralism are echoed in qualitative studies of human migration, where agency, contingency, experience and multi-dimensional and intersecting drivers are emphasised as central to effective methodologies for exploring connections between migration and development (e.g., Czaika & Godin, 2021;Erdal et al, 2021).…”

Environmental drivers of human migration in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…On the contrary, Myers and Kent argue that rapid population growth especially in developing countries is depleting resources and is a more critical push factor for people to migrate to a new place than slow-onset environmental changes (Myers & Kent, 1995). Other scholars (Czaika & Godin, 2021;Lee, 2001) tried to disentangle the complex drivers of environmental migration by exploring the migrationdevelopment nexus and its connection with environmental security. Their conclusions emphasized how the terms used to describe environmental migration have little to do with the understanding of the complexity of specific cases and how they are influenced by non-environmental factors (Czaika & Godin, 2021;Lee, 2001).…”

“…This research aims to understand the various levels of the complex phenomena between environmental drivers and migration in SSA. The author found QCA to be a more suitable method for this research because of its special design for small to intermediate size cases (5-50), its integration of qualitative and quantitative analysis, and its comparative and configurational abilities (Czaika & Godin, 2021;Kirchherr et al, 2016;Ragin, 1984;Ragin et al, 2017;Schneider & Wagemann, 2012). This research reviewed 87 works on migration induced by sudden, slow onset, and accumulated environmental changes from 32 countries in SSA.…”

“…Other scholars (Czaika & Godin, 2021; Lee, 2001) tried to disentangle the complex drivers of environmental migration by exploring the migration–development nexus and its connection with environmental security. Their conclusions emphasized how the terms used to describe environmental migration have little to do with the understanding of the complexity of specific cases and how they are influenced by non-environmental factors (Czaika & Godin, 2021; Lee, 2001). In response to the need for a better understanding of the environmental migration phenomenon, research in this field has been blooming, providing a number of empirical analyses and case studies linking the environment to migration (see Figure 1) (McLeman, 2012; Neumann & Hilderink, 2015).…”

Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

“…The best way to address the issue is by 'Explain[ing] how will you ensure that the individuals you involve will not be stigmatised, retraumatised or otherwise harmed through their participation in your research' (European Commission, 2018a). Some challenges in this field are the change of personnel, the loss of research-memory, keeping track of ethics standards, data management and the impact on vulnerable populations who are the object of various types of research on a regular basis, such as refugees, asylum seekers and migrants (Block et al, 2013;Habib, 2019;Czaika and Godin, 2021). Within this issue, the creation of an institutional memory turns out to be a feasible solution that can be developed by two actions: on one side, cooperation between stakeholders and strengthening the network of researchers working on humanitarian or conflict areas; on the other side, the involvement of local communities in the research ethics process, ensuring it is iterative and locally relevant.…”