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When the disaster strikes: Gendered (im)mobility in Bangladesh

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Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja·2020·Climate Risk Management

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Gender influences people’s behaviour in various ways. This study investigates gendered (im)mobility during cyclone strikes in Bangladesh. During such strikes people have described being unable to move away from environmentally high-risk locations and situations. The Q-based Discourse Analysis used by this study shows how and why gender-roles (im)mobilised people in three coastal locations during the cyclones. People (and especially women) explained that failing to evacuate to the cyclone shelters when a disaster strikes was not uncommon. Gender, or feminine and masculine social roles, played a significant role in these evacuation decisions while facilitating or constraining their mobility. The gendered subjectivities presented different accepted social behaviours and spaces for women and men. In this way, immobility (social, psychological, and geographical) was strongly gendered. Masculine roles were expected to be brave and protective, while female ‘mobility’ could be risky. Women’s mobility therefore ended up being constrained to the home. In other words, when the disaster strikes, everyone did not have the same ability to move. These empirical insights are important to inform climate policy in a way that it better supports vulnerable populations worldwide as they confront global environmental changes today and in the future.

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  • Men are often found to be more likely than women to change their migration behavior in response to slow-onset climatic events.

    “Further, men are often found to be more likely than women to change their migration behavior in response to slow-onset climatic events (see also Ayeb-Karlsson, 2020).”

    From Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature (2021) · cites this paper as Ayeb-Karlsson, 2020

    Section 2, “(Im)mobility and gendered disasters,” says that men in Bangladesh often migrate to cities while women are left behind, supporting a gender difference in mobility. The paper examines evacuation during cyclone strikes, however, and does not establish that men are more likely than women to change migration behavior specifically in response to slow-onset climatic events. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  1. Black, R., Collyer, M. (2014) "Trapped" Populations: Limits on mobility at time of crisis. , in: Martin, S.F., Weerasinghe, S., Taylor, A. (Eds.), Humanitarian Crises and Migration. Causes, Consequences and Response. Routledge, London, pp. 287-305. ISBN: 9780203797860.
  2. Cannon, T. (2000). Vulnerability analysis and disasters. In Parker, D.J. (Ed.) Floods (pp. 45-55). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN: 0415227437.

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Authors
Ayeb-Karlsson, S.
Venue
Climate Risk Management
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020
Volume
29
Pages
100237
ISSN
2212-0963 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3033383079
Cited by
103
References
86
Citations by year
2026: 26 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 5
FWCI
16.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Climate Risk Management (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • UNU Collections (United Nations University) (submittedVersion)
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  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • University of Sussex
  • Durham University
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
Keywords
cyclones, disaster evacuation, cyclone shelters, women's mobility, gender roles, coastal communities, climate change vulnerability, climate policy, Bangladesh

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