Immobility

Zickgraf, Caroline

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“…The question of why and how people are not migrating in the context of increasing migration pressures by environmental change has received so far only little attention in the academic literature (Adams, ; Farbotko, ; Klepp, ). Thereby, as Zickgraf (, p. 72) writes, “[t]he inability to migrate, failed migration or a lack of migration aspirations are excluded from our narratives.” Meanwhile, through family linkages as well as within individual life trajectories, environmentally induced migration is always closely connected to immobility, to dwelling, and geographical stability. Indeed, “immobility is inextricably, albeit often invisibly, linked to our understandings of human mobility.…”

Section: A Mobilities Perspective To Environmental Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, “immobility is inextricably, albeit often invisibly, linked to our understandings of human mobility. […] Migration and nonmigration can thus be seen as two sides of the same coin” (Zickgraf, , p. 71).…”

Section: A Mobilities Perspective To Environmental Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, empirical research points not only to people's inability (or low motility), but also to their lack of interest in becoming mobile (Adams, ; Farbotko et al, ; Klepp & Herbeck, ; Zickgraf, ). While it is a well‐established theme in the displacement and resettlement literature (see, for example, Cernea, ), this disinterest or reluctance to move has rarely been conceptualized in the literature on environmental change‐induced migration.…”

Section: A Mobilities Perspective To Environmental Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change

Wiegel

Boas

Warner

2019

WIREs Climate Change

107

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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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Section: A Mobilities Perspective To Environmental Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Mobilities Perspective To Environmental Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Mobilities Perspective To Environmental Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change

Wiegel

Boas

Warner

2019

WIREs Climate Change

107

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“…In this process, some migration streams will be eliminated and new ones will emerge. This has led to concerns that some populations may be “trapped” in these vulnerable areas; however, more recent work has suggested that these populations may equally be expressing strong location attachment and thus prefer to remain (Zickgraf, ).…”

Section: Coastal Flooding In a Dynamic Human Environmentmentioning

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Usable Science for Managing the Risks of Sea‐Level Rise

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Sea-level rise sits at the frontier of usable climate climate change research, because it involves natural and human systems with long lags, irreversible losses, and deep uncertainty. For example, many of the measures to adapt to sea-level rise involve infrastructure and land-use decisions, which can have multigenerational lifetimes and will further influence responses in both natural and human systems. Thus, sea-level science has increasingly grappled with the implications of (1) deep uncertainty in future climate system projections, particularly of human emissions and ice sheet dynamics; (2) the overlay of slow trends and high-frequency variability (e.g., tides and storms) that give rise to many of the most relevant impacts; (3) the effects of changing sea level on the physical exposure and vulnerability of ecological and socioeconomic systems; and (4) the challenges of engaging stakeholder communities with the scientific process in a way that genuinely increases the utility of the science for adaptation decision making. Much fundamental climate system research remains to be done, but many of the most critical issues sit at the intersection of natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, decision science, and political economy. Addressing these issues demands a better understanding of the coupled interactions of mean and extreme sea levels, coastal geomorphology, economics, and migration; decision-first approaches that identify and focus research upon those scientific uncertainties most relevant to concrete adaptation choices; and a political economy that allows usable science to become used science.Plain Language Summary The impacts of sea-level rise pose growing threats to coastal communities, economies, and ecosystems, and decisions made today-in areas like land-use policies, coastal development, and infrastructure investment-will affect exposure and vulnerability for generations to come. Thus, the usability of sea-level science is a pressing concern. Ensuring usability requires grappling with deep uncertainty in long-term sea-level projections, the relationship between long-term trends and the impacts of short-lived extreme events, and the ways in which the physical coast, as well as people and ecosystems along the coast, respond to increasingly frequent flooding. At the same time, it also requires more extensive and deliberate stakeholder engagement throughout the scientific process, as well as cognizance of the political economy of linking stakeholder-engaged science to action.

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“…The study of immobility is relatively young within environmental migration scholarship compared to other areas of research (Zickgraf 2018a;Ayeb-Karlsson et al 2018). It has rarely been studied in its own right, perhaps reflecting a 'mobility bias' (Jónsson 2011;Schewel 2019).…”

Section: Narratives On (Im)mobility and Environmental Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Keeping People in Place: Political Factors of (Im)mobility and Climate Change

Zickgraf

2019

Social Sciences

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While those 'trapped' or who choose to stay in areas affected by climate change represent a substantial policy issue, there only a small amount of empirical work specifically targeting such populations. The scant attention that is afforded to immobility often emphasizes financial constraints as factors driving (involuntary) immobility. As an essential part of the mobility spectrum, the complexity of immobility in crisis, including its political dimensions, warrants thorough investigation. In response to these gaps, this contribution locates environmental immobility within mobilities studies, its conceptual complexities, and, finally, illustrates the importance of political factors in shaping (im)mobilities. The findings are based on semi-structured interviews conducted in two developing countries experiencing the impacts of climate change. We delve into the socio-cultural and economic nature of (im)mobilities as they interact with political forces, specifically by exploring international bilateral agreements (Senegal) and a relocation program (Vietnam). In political spaces that are dominated by a desire to limit human mobility and (re)produce stasis, we challenge traditional dichotomies between mobile/immobile and sedentary/migration polices by underlining how policy interventions can simultaneously promote mobility and immobility, demonstrating complex co-existing mobilities. Keeping people in place can, in fact, mean allowing the very same people to move.

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Immobility

Cited by 64 publications

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A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change

A mobilities perspective on migration in the context of environmental change

Usable Science for Managing the Risks of Sea‐Level Rise

Keeping People in Place: Political Factors of (Im)mobility and Climate Change

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