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[Commlist] Funded PhD scholarship - Climate Migrants, Mobility and Governance Across Emergent Political and Policy Terrains

Tue Jun 15 21:49:46 GMT 2021





Project title: Climate Migrants, Mobility and Governance Across Emergent Political and Policy Terrains


Project in brief (applicant to identify specific focus):
This interdisciplinary study will investigate impacts of climate-related migration and mobility, internationally or nationally, including to or within the UK. It will explore ways these societal challenges are shaped by community ties and identities, migration and migration politics, and emergent climate-change policies across local, national, and international levels. It will examine climate-related impacts on social exclusion, marginalisation, mobility, and people’s changing relations with politics, science, and the state; policy concerns to address climate-related mobility and migration; and ethical issues in the governance of climate-related displacement. It will inform action around policy implementation that can be shared regionally, nationally, and internationally. We are seeking students with a relevant first degree (e.g. anthropology, development studies, law, geography, similar); and practical experience e.g. NGOs, community work. The fieldwork location is the applicant’s choice. Key themes: climate migration, displacement, mobility, marginalised communities
Project in detail:
The most widely cited prediction for climate migrants (also “climate refugees”) is 200+ million by 2050 (UNHCR 2020). Worsening climate change impacts are producing migrants and displacees within and across national borders, with for example Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America estimated to have 140 million+ internal migrants by 2050 (World Bank 2018). While causal relationships between climate-change, armed conflict, and asylum-seeking are also established - linking climate change to Europe’s migrant “crisis” (Guy et al 2019)—slow onset hazards such as heat are driving the mobility of urban populations across Asia (Zander et al 2018); and rising sea levels have seen British villages decommissioned, with their ‘viability’ determined by the cost of coastal defence versus resettlement (House of Lords 2019). In light of research showing that ‘climate migrants’ have inadequate legal protection or recognition (Apap 2019), this interdisciplinary project seeks to re-imagine policy from the perspective of migrants, with the aim to explore connections between policy practice, identities, and exclusions in vulnerable and marginal communities. It will explore how experiences of climate change mobility vary according to national, social and economic location; and are shaped by political, community, media, and policy representations and responses. Particular focus will be placed on where migrants and communities experience gaps in legal and community protection, and on how they propose to fill these gaps. The knowledge and inter-sectorial networks generated will support situated understandings of mobility in climate-affected communities, and the ethical governance of climate-related mobility. Potential questions: (1) How do the dramatic or slow-onset effects of climate change affect people’s mobility, relationships to their communities and the state, and other national, social, identity and class exclusions (including gender)? (Community) (2) How can policy suggestions emerging from communities displaced as a result of climate change be leveraged for their integration; and for sustainable policy development at multiple levels? (Social policy) (3) What ethical concerns are raised firstly by the logic that confers responsibility for inter/national migration or resettlement on individuals, the state, and supra-state actors—and secondly, by their governance as climate-related? (Ethics)

Methods Interpretive and thematic approaches including in-depth interviews, focus groups with migrants and affected communities, NGO and community service providers, and ethnographic insights in affected settings will produce critical bridgework between the voices and experiences of migrants, and those of service providers. The study may involve single or multi-sited methods, co-produced research, and a national, international, or comparative focus.

Supervisors: Dr Nichola Khan, and Dr Roxana Cavalcanti, School of Humanities and Social Science; Professor Julie Doyle, School of Art and Media. Khan and Doyle are Directors of the Centre for Spatial Environmental and Cultural Politics (SECP) which offers a supportive, thriving Phd student environment. Dr Khan has significant research expertise in migration, mobilities, and refugees; Professor Doyle has expertise in media and communication perspectives on climate change. Dr Cavalcanti works on violence, justice, and marginalized communities in the Global South.

Deadline for application 7 July 2021, 1600.

Expected interview dates Monday 19 July 2021

Research centre Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics https://www.brighton.ac.uk/secp/index.aspx Funding and application details here: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/postgraduate-research-degrees/funding-opportunities-and-studentships/2021-uob-climate-migrants-mobility-governance.aspx

Due to the post’s funding it is only open to home applicants as defined by the Fees Regulations.

Queries about project can be sent to Dr Nichola Khan ((N.Khan /at/ brighton.ac.uk))

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