A5075773492- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Rural development and sustainability
University of Vienna
2024
Universität Innsbruck
2020
University of Bonn
2016-2019
There is growing recognition of the potential migration to contribute climate-change adaptation. Yet, there limited evidence what degree, under conditions, for whom, and with which limitations this effectively case. We argue that results from a lack systematic incorporation sociospatiality—the nested, networked, intersectional nature migration-as-adaptation. Our central objective utilize translocal social-resilience approach overcome these gaps, identify processes structures shape social...
Climate change and migration are drawing increasing interest from researchers policy makers as well the general public. While in beginning a simplistic geo-deterministic comprehension of environmental impact on human mobility had dominated discussion, framing relationship has recently become more differentiated. Vast empirical evidence derived rural livelihoods research clearly shows that is an important strategy households when dealing with multiple risks, including stress. This led to...
This paper explores the mobilities and structural moorings of Thai labour migrants in Singapore from a translocal perspective. We argue that combining paradigm with concept translocality offers fruitful avenue investigation not only production spaces, but also their temporality mutability. Through multi-sited research approach we shed light on genesis as well decay connections. shows structures are important migration, raises question what happens to spaces when migration flows dissolve.
In recent years there has been a renewed enthusiasm about the role of migration in development, as well importance remittances. However, is also danger rehashing previous debates with an overemphasis on economic remittances, while relegating transfer social such new ideas, knowledge, skills, practices, and capital, to secondary role. Though literature remittances increased over last decade, debate tends emphasise positive relation between migration, development. this paper we scrutinise...
<p>For the last decade there has been a lively debate on urban arrival spaces. Saunders’ (2011) widely received book <em>Arrival Cities</em> can be seen as catalyst of this debate. Taking hitherto largely unexplored comparative approach, based two empirical research studies migrant workers and highly-skilled migrants in Singapore, study debates notion cities spaces argues for differentiated perspective complex interdependent processes spatially socially arriving. By...