Abstract
Climate change and migration are increasingly becoming a part of policy discussions. One concept, migration as adaptation, has become popularized as a tangible way forward. While some studies focus on how this framing came to be at the international level, few have actually traced how it has traveled across administrative scales to the national and sub-national level. This paper looks to fill this gap and explores migration as adaptation policy in Thailand, a climate-vulnerable country with a highly mobile population. It finds that there is limited discussion of the issue for ideational and institutional reasons, including because migration is seen as negative or a “last resort” by Thai policymakers, limited leverage by relevant policy actors such as IOM within climate change adaptation policymaking arenas, and short-term and short-sighted policy reactions based on disruptive events. Given this, this paper questions the ability of migration as adaptation to travel to lower governance scales in particularly constrained contexts.
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
|---|---|
| Seiten (von - bis) | 1-13 |
| Seitenumfang | 13 |
| Fachzeitschrift | Die Erde: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin - Forum für Erdsystem- und Erdraumforschung |
| Jahrgang | 155 |
| Ausgabenummer | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 5 Dez. 2024 |
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This article was made possible by funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, grant number 01LN1309A. The authors would like to thank the many people that took the time to speak to them. They would like to especially thank Bunika Chuchan, Pattarapong Chaowai and Boonyanut Chompaen for translation support. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the U.S. government. ing at the national and sub-national level generally, there have been a number of disruptive events over the past decade which have shaped existing migration policy in Thailand, including the 2014 coup (which In Thailand, the IOM of ?ice is well-respected and -in meant increasing scrutiny and restrictive laws for un-?luential in a number of ways. Historically, its main documented migrants) and the ???稀 economic crisis areas of work have been human traf ?icking, recru-it (which led to internal migration becoming a part of ment and supply chain management, immigration and policy discussions). Neither of these examples, how-border management, migration health, and refugee ever, has shifted the discussion on climate-related resettlement. ?hile climate and the environment are migration, and in particular, MAA. Despite this, there on its radar, it never seems to be able to gain a foot-was one such period in time that reveals the poten-hold in the country of ?ice. As one IOM country speci-al tial of future environmental events to stimulate dis-ist told the ?irst author in ????, while staff rececnotulyr se: the ???猀 Bangkok ?loods. lobbied for a climate migration project to receive funding from the IOM Development Fund, a resource that provides “seed funding” for innovative projects, they ultimately proved unsuccessful in receiving any resources. org/10.1068/a45388 This article was made possible by funding from the German Bettini, G. (????). Climate barbarians at the gate?-A cri Federal Ministry of Education and Research, grant number tique of apocalyptic narratives on ‘climate refugees.’ ? ?LN ? ? ? ? A. The authors would like to thank the many peoGeoforum, 45, 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geofo-ple that took the time to speak to them. They would like to rum. ????. 爃?. ? 爃? especially thank Bunika Chuchan, Pattarapong Chaowai Bettini, G., & Gioli, G. (2016). ?altz with development: in-and Boonyanut Chompaen for translation support. The sights on the developmentalization of climate-induced views and opinions expressed in this article are those of migration. Migration and Development, 5( ?), ? ? ? – ? ? ?. the authors and do not necessarily represent the views and https://doi.org/ ? ?. ? ? ? ?/ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. ? ? ? ?. ? ? ? ? ?? ? opinions of the U.S. government. Betts, A., & Orchard, P. (Eds.). (2014). Implementation and world politics: how international norms change practice (First edition). Oxford University Press.
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