PhD Human Geography and Urban Studies 'Seasonal Labour Migration from Satkhira, Bangladesh to Urban and Peri-Urban Spaces: A form of In-/Ex-Situ Envir

人文地理学和城市研究博士“从孟加拉国萨特基拉到城市和城郊空间的季节性劳动力迁移：一种在地/异地环境的形式”

• 批准号: 2902022
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2902022
• 关键词: PhD; Human; Geography; Urban; Studies

This PhD project explores seasonal labour migration from Satkhira, Bangladesh to urban and peri-urban spaces within the country. It seeks to contextualise seasonal labour migration from the region in relation to histories of land use change, dispossession, environmental hazards and changes in the landscape and the effect these factors have on livelihood options in the region. The project builds on a growing literature that decentres climate as the cause of environmental change in coastal Bangladesh and shifts focus to infrastructure, land use change, dispossession, and development regimes. By utilising a multi-sited and mobile ethnographic approach, this research will trace how changes in livelihood opportunities in the sending location translate into seasonal labour migrants finding livelihoods in urban and peri-urban locations. Aiming to give more holistic insights into the lives, motivations and relationships that shape patterns of rural to urban mobility from environmentally changing regions of Bangladesh while drawing from literature related to political ecology, climate/environmental mobilities and adaptation. A mobile and multi-sited ethnographic approach was selected for its utility in understanding migration as a multi-sited process connected to various relationships in travel, and the sending and receiving location. This is influenced by a range of scholarship within the mobilities paradigm that highlights the advantages mobile and multi-sited ethnographies offer in providing nuance in an interconnected and globalised world. This approach offers opportunities to better understand migration in Bangladesh as previous research has largely focused on migration in the context of the sending or receiving location. Further, this research seeks to address the limited empirical research that interrogates migration in relation to concepts like environmental displacement, and climate adaptive migration in Bangladesh. In recent years, political ecologists such as Camelia Dewan and Kasia Paprocki have highlighted how complex social, political, and economic histories in coastal Bangladesh contribute to environmental change. These factors and resulting environmental change led to changing patterns of livelihood opportunities for inhabitants and can result in migration. This project contributes to this literature by tracing mobility from the perspective of seasonal labour migrants, exploring how the opportunities to migrate are shaped by international development, urbanisation, and global political economy. Bringing into view their experiences of changes in place and connecting this to a growing body of research that seeks to de-exceptionalise displacement. This will facilitate critically appraising concepts like climate adaptive migration, climate migration and environmental displacement that have become a subject of much debate in academic and policy discussions of climate futures. Led by the movements of seasonal labour migrants, this project has the potential to give new insights to urban livelihoods such as work in brick fields that have received comparatively little scholarly attention in Bangladesh compared to India. This research builds on two months of field research done in Satkhira for my master's thesis at the University of Sussex, which identified the opportunities a project like this presented in better contextualising internal migration in Bangladesh and to contribute to a broader literature that seeks to better understand the relationship between environmental change, livelihoods, and migration.

该博士项目探讨了从孟加拉国萨特希拉到该国城市和城郊空间的季节性劳动力迁移。它试图将该地区的季节性劳动力移民与土地利用变化、剥夺、环境危害和景观变化的历史以及这些因素对该地区生计选择的影响联系起来。该项目建立在越来越多的文献的基础上，这些文献将气候作为孟加拉国沿海环境变化的原因，并将重点转向基础设施、土地利用变化、剥夺和发展制度。通过利用多地点和移动的人种学方法，本研究将追踪派遣地生计机会的变化如何转化为季节性劳务移民在城市和城郊地区寻找生计。旨在更全面地了解孟加拉国环境变化地区从农村到城市流动模式的生活、动机和关系，同时借鉴与政治生态、气候/环境流动性和适应相关的文献。选择移动和多地点的民族志方法是因为它有助于将移民理解为与旅行中的各种关系以及发送和接收位置相关的多地点过程。这是受到移动范式内一系列学术的影响，这些范式强调了移动和多站点民族志在提供互联和全球化世界中的细微差别方面所提供的优势。这种方法为更好地了解孟加拉国的移民提供了机会，因为以前的研究主要集中在发送或接收地点背景下的移民。此外，本研究旨在解决有限的实证研究，这些研究质疑孟加拉国的环境迁移和气候适应移民等概念的移民。近年来，卡梅莉亚·德万（Camelia Dewan）和卡西亚·帕普罗基（Kasia Paprocki）等政治生态学家强调了孟加拉国沿海地区复杂的社会、政治和经济历史如何导致环境变化。这些因素以及由此产生的环境变化导致居民生计机会模式发生变化，并可能导致移民。该项目通过从季节性劳工移民的角度追踪流动性，探索国际发展、城市化和全球政治经济如何塑造移民机会，为这一文献做出了贡献。考虑他们对当地变化的经历，并将其与越来越多旨在消除流离失所的研究联系起来。这将有助于对气候适应移民、气候移民和环境位移等概念进行批判性评估，这些概念已成为气候未来学术和政策讨论中广泛争论的主题。在季节性劳工移民流动的带动下，该项目有可能为城市生计提供新的见解，例如与印度相比，在孟加拉国，砖块地的工作受到的学术关注相对较少。这项研究以我在苏塞克斯大学的硕士论文在萨特基拉进行的两个月的实地研究为基础，该研究确定了这样的项目在更好地了解孟加拉国内部移民的背景方面所提供的机会，并为更广泛的文献做出贡献，以寻求更好地理解环境变化、生计和移民之间的关系。