Climate migration myths
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Migration studies have long suffered from a mobility bias, focusing heavily on the drivers of migration and neglecting the reasons why many people do not migrate.
“Migration studies have long suffered from a mobility bias, focusing heavily on the drivers of migration and neglecting the reasons why many people do not migrate (Boas et al. 2019; Schewel 2020).”
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The research priorities section argues that climate-migration research should attend to people who cannot or do not want to move, rather than assuming climate change causes migration. It does not establish that migration studies generally have long had a mobility bias or have neglected non-migration; its critique is specific to climate-migration research. No page number is available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Adams, H., Sterly, H., Bush, S., van der Geest, K., Wiegel, H., Ashraf, H., Baldwin, A., Bettini, G., Blondin, S., de Bruijn, M., Durand-Delacre, D., Fröhlich, C., Gioli, G., Guaita, L., Hut, E., Jarawura, F. X., Lamers, M., Lietaer, S., Nash, S. L., Piguet, E., Rothe, D., Sakdapolrak, P., Smith, L., Tripathy Furlong, B., Turhan, E., Warner, J., Zickgraf, C., Black, R., & Hulme, M.
- Affiliations
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Griffith University (AU)
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Jahangirnagar University (BD)
- Durham University (GB)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- University of Neuchâtel (CH)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- German Institute for Global and Area Studies (DE)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- University of Liège (BE)
- University for Development Studies (GH)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- BOKU University (AT)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Boas, Ingrid
- ORCID
- Boas, Ingrid
- Farbotko, Carol
- Adams, Helen
- Sterly, Harald
- Bush, Simon
- Wiegel, Hanne
- Ashraf, Hasan
- Baldwin, Andrew
- Bettini, Giovanni
- Blondin, Suzy
- de Bruijn, Mirjam
- Durand-Delacre, David
- Fröhlich, Christiane
- Gioli, Giovanna
- Hut, Elodie
- Jarawura, Francis X.
- Lamers, Machiel
- Lietaer, Samuel
- Nash, Sarah L.
- Piguet, Etienne
- Rothe, Delf
- Sakdapolrak, Patrick
- Smith, Lothar
- Turhan, Ethemcan
- Warner, Jeroen
- Zickgraf, Caroline
- Black, Richard
- Hulme, Mike
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2019-11-26
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 901-903
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W2989959138
- Cited by
- 370
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 53 · 2025: 61 · 2024: 71 · 2023: 75 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 55.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Nature Climate Change (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Research Space (acceptedVersion)
- Durham Research Online (Durham University) (acceptedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- Durham Research Online (Durham University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
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- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (451-16-030)
- Wageningen University, Social Sciences research excellence fund
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Keywords
- climate-induced migration, climate mobility, human mobility, climate change, myth, migration policy, research agenda
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