Migration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: What Role do Emotions Play?
Journal article, 2023

Climate change intersecting with complex socio-economic and political processes has produced distinctive patterns of crisis migration. However there exists a significant gap in understanding and theorizing these forms of migration creating significant policy challenges. Using a case study of an interstate migrant settlement in Bengaluru, India this article unpacks migration as an adaptation strategy through the lens of emotions. The article offers significant insights into how emotions affect the choice of migration as an adaptation strategy and shapes the differential experiences of risks and vulnerability for different groups of people. Emphasizing such relational aspects of migration, the article calls for more research that develops a nuanced understanding of the emotional landscapes of migrants across migration pathways.

adaptation

emotions

vulnerability

emotional landscapes

migration

Author

Kavya Michael

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Environmental Systems Analysis

Emotion Review

1754-0739 (ISSN) 17540747 (eISSN)

Vol. 15 4 267-270

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

International Migration and Ethnic Relations

Human Geography

DOI

10.1177/17540739231194327

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