- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
University of Exeter
2020-2024
University of York
2022-2024
It is widely suggested that migration a key mechanism linking climate change to violent conflict, particularly through increasing the risks of conflict in urban destinations. Yet also creates new forms insecurity distress migration, immobility and vulnerability are prevalent destination locations. Here we examine extent nature human security destinations test whether affected by length residence environmental hazards. The study develops an index measure at individual level include...
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives those involved and has been transformative societies economies globally. Yet models sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate movement populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays role as driver unsustainability part economic globalisation, yet simultaneously phenomenon potential force for sustainable development. We propose criteria by which opportunity development: increasing...
Although it is widely recognized that migration socially transformative, the potential contributions of migrants to transformations towards sustainability in their destination areas are often overlooked mainstream discourse on environmentalism and sustainability.Here we seek identify current narratives across individual, urban, national scales.Migrants commonly framed public policy as having no or even negative impacts sustainability.The study hypotheses lived experience by within urban...
Abstract While material conditions of migrant populations on average tend to improve over time as they become established in new destinations, individual trajectories and subjective well‐being often diverge. Here, we analyse how social environmental factors the urban environment shape populations. We hypothesise these include (a) perceived risk, (b) attachment place, (c) aspirations. data from a cross‐sectional survey 2641 migrants seven cities across Ghana, India, Bangladesh. The results...
Research on the impacts of COVID-19 mobility has focused primarily increased health vulnerabilities involuntary migrant and displaced populations. But virtually all migration flows have been truncated altered because reduced economic opportunities migrants. Here we use a well-established framework decision-making, whereby individual decisions combine aspiration ability to migrate, explain how public responses pandemic alter patterns among urban populations across world. The principal that...
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We investigate impacts of COVID-19 on a low wage essential sector, adult care homes in England, where one four deaths due to occurred, and whether the minimum moderates these impacts. identify effects home outcomes implementing difference-in-differences estimator large, matched employer-employee quarterly panel data set between December 2019 June 2021. find that higher locality exposure reduces wages employment mitigates effects. show results can be explained by monopsony labour market...
Young people2 are more likely to migrate than older people. During the transition adulthood, they make important choices regarding education, labour force participation, and family formation. Using a unique panel dataset on youth born in 1994–95 Ethiopia, India, Peru, Vietnam, this paper investigates whether young migrants 'positively' self-selected observable characteristics, specifically educational attainment. First, I document patterns prevalence, frequency, timing, reasons streams of...
Although it is widely recognized that migration can have a substantial impact on societal transformations, potential contributions of migrants to sustainability are often overlooked in mainstream discourse environmentalism and sustainability. Here we seek identify current narratives at scales ‘in between’ nation city actions migrants. Migrants commonly framed public policy as source labor but with negative consequences for social cohesion. The study hypotheses the lived experience challenges...