Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh
Etzold, Benjamin, Ahmed, Ahsan Uddin, Hassan, Selim Reza, Neelormi, Sharmind and Afifi, Tamer, "Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh" in Environmental Migration and Social Inequality ed. McLeman, Robert, Schade, Jeanette and Faist, Thomas (Geneva: Springer International Publishing, 2015), 27-41.
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Author Etzold, Benjamin
Ahmed, Ahsan Uddin
Hassan, Selim Reza
Neelormi, Sharmind
Afifi, TamerBook Editor McLeman, Robert
Schade, Jeanette
Faist, ThomasChapter Title Rainfall Variability, Hunger, and Social Inequality, and Their Relative Influences on Migration: Evidence from Bangladesh Book Title Environmental Migration and Social Inequality Publication Date 2015-12-17 Place of Publication Geneva Publisher Springer International Publishing Start page 27 End page 41 Language eng Abstract Research on climate change and migration usually assesses the effects of natural hazards and/or creeping environmental degradation on people’s livelihoods and their migration. This chapter looks at changing rainfall patterns, local perception of these changes, and the decision to migrate, or not, to cope with rainfall variability and hunger. Based on empirical evidence from a case study undertaken in Kurigram District in northern Bangladesh, this chapter addresses four key questions: (1) Is the rural population sensitive to rainfall variability? (2) How is rainfall variability related to food security? (3) Which labour-migration systems can be used by the local people to cope with environmental shocks and adapt to change? and (4) Do people migrate for work to cope with and adapt to the effects of rainfall variability or because of food insecurity and social inequality? Although rainfall variability can play an important role in people’s decisions to migrate, we argue that migration from the region is not driven so much by climate changes as it is by the persistent local patterns of social inequality and food insecurity coupled with the structural economic disparities that exist in Bangladesh. UNBIS Thesaurus MIGRATION
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CLIMATE CHANGEKeyword Social inequality Copyright Holder Springer International Publishing Switzerland Copyright Year 2015 Copyright type All rights reserved ISBN 9783319257945 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25796-9 -
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