Translocal social resilience dimensions of migration as adaptation to environmental change

Author:

Sakdapolrak Patrick12ORCID,Sterly Harald1ORCID,Borderon Marion1ORCID,Bunchuay-Peth Simon1ORCID,Naruchaikusol Sopon3,Ober Kayly4,Porst Luise5ORCID,Rockenbauch Till6ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria

2. Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Sciences), University of Vienna), 1010 Vienna, Austria

3. Raks Thai Foundation, 10400 Bangkok, Thailand

4. Climate, Environment, and Conflict Program, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC 20037

5. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Research Area 2 “Land use and governance”, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany

6. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, 53113 Bonn, Germany

Abstract

There is growing recognition of the potential of migration to contribute to climate-change adaptation. Yet, there is limited evidence to what degree, under what conditions, for whom, and with which limitations this is effectively the case. We argue that this results from a lack of recognition and systematic incorporation of sociospatiality—the nested, networked, and intersectional nature of migration-as-adaptation. Our central objective is to utilize the translocal social-resilience approach to overcome these gaps, to identify processes and structures that shape the social resilience of translocal livelihood systems, and to illustrate the mechanisms behind the multiplicity of possible resilience outcomes. Translocal livelihood constellations anchored in rural Thailand as well as in domestic and international destinations of Thai migrants serve as illustrative empirical cases. Data were gathered through a multisited and mixed-methods research design. This paper highlights the role of the distinct but interlinked situations and operational logics at places of origin and destination, as well as the different positionalities and resulting vulnerabilities, roles, commitments, and practices of individuals and households with regard to resilience. Based on the empirical results, the paper distills a generalized typology of five broad categories of resilience outcomes, which explicitly considers sociospatiality. Our approach helps to grasp the complexity of migration-as-adaptation and to avoid simplistic conclusions about the benefits and costs of migration for adaptation—both of which are necessary for sound, evidence-based, migration-as-adaptation policymaking.

Funder

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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