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Trapped in the prison of the mind: Notions of climate-induced (im)mobility decision-making and wellbeing from an urban informal settlement in Bangladesh

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Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja, Kniveton, Dominic, Cannon, Terry·2020·Palgrave Communications
DOI 10.1057/s41599-020-0443-2
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The concept of Trapped Populations has until date mainly referred to people ‘trapped’ in environmentally high-risk rural areas due to economic constraints. This article attempts to widen our understanding of the concept by investigating climate-induced socio-psychological immobility and its link to Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) wellbeing in a slum of Dhaka. People migrated here due to environmental changes back on Bhola Island and named the settlement Bhola Slum after their home. In this way, many found themselves ‘immobile’ after having been mobile—unable to move back home, and unable to move to other parts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, or beyond. The analysis incorporates the emotional and psychosocial aspects of the diverse immobility states. Mind and emotion are vital to better understand people’s (im)mobility decision-making and wellbeing status. The study applies an innovative and interdisciplinary methodological approach combining Q-methodology and discourse analysis (DA). This mixed-method illustrates a replicable approach to capture the complex state of climate-induced (im)mobility and its interlinkages to people’s wellbeing. People reported facing non-economic losses due to the move, such as identity, honour, sense of belonging and mental health. These psychosocial processes helped explain why some people ended up ‘trapped’ or immobile. The psychosocial constraints paralysed them mentally, as well as geographically. More empirical evidence on how climate change influences people’s wellbeing and mental health will be important to provide us with insights in how to best support vulnerable people having faced climatic impacts, and build more sustainable climate policy frameworks.

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  • Three studies from Bangladesh reported negative effects on emotional well-being as a result of climate-induced immobility.

    “Three studies from Bangladesh have reported negative effects on emotional well-being as a result of climate-induced immobility [81,82,83].”

    From Climate Change and Mental Health: A Scoping Review (2021) · cites this paper as [83]

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Authors
Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Kniveton, D., & Cannon, T.
Affiliations
University of Sussex (GB)
ORCID
Venue
Palgrave Communications
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2020-04-20
Volume
6
Issue
1
ISSN
2055-1045 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1057/s41599-020-0443-2
OpenAlex
W3016292181
Cited by
129
References
100
Citations by year
2026: 23 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 12
FWCI
26.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • UNU Collections (United Nations University) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
Keywords
trapped populations, internally displaced persons, informal settlements, slums, climate-induced migration, psychosocial impact, mental health, well-being, identity loss, sense of belonging, emotional attachment to home, decision-making, Q methodology, Dhaka

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