Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate

Ingrid Boas; Hanne Wiegel; Carol Farbotko; Jeroen Warner; Mimi Sheller

doi:10.1080/1369183X.2022.2066264

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Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate

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Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate

Ingrid Boas, Hanne Wiegel, Carol Farbotko, Jeroen Warner and Mimi Sheller

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol.48(14), pp.3365-3379

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2066264

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Climate change

im/mobilities

migration

mobility regimes

The discussion on the relation between human mobility and climate change has moved beyond linear and exceptional terms. Building on these debates, this article, and the Special Issue on Climate Mobilities: Migration, im/mobilities and mobilities regimes in a changing climate that it introduces, conceptualises this relation in terms of climate mobilities. Through the concept of climate mobilities, we highlight the multiplicity of mobility in the context of a changing climate, including the interrelations between human mobilities and immobilities and their interplay with other mobile flows, such as the mobilities of ideas, information, or climate risk. We furthermore delve into the politics of climate mobilities, defining climate mobility regimes, and implications for mobility justice among those whose mobility is impacted by these regimes. We argue for research to pay more attention to acts of resistance against dominant climate mobility regimes, including voluntary immobilities and re-emplacements that challenge mass migration frames or imposed relocation policies. The articles in this issue empirically examine these dimensions, reflecting on the plurality of climate mobilities and its politics, each analysing how these evolve in a situated cultural or political context.

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Title: Climate mobilities: migration, im/mobilities and mobility regimes in a changing climate
Authors: Ingrid Boas (Author) - Wageningen University & Research
Hanne Wiegel (Author) - Wageningen University & Research
Carol Farbotko (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
Jeroen Warner (Author) - Wageningen University & Research
Mimi Sheller (Author) - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Publication details: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol.48(14), pp.3365-3379
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2066264
ISSN: 1469-9451; 1369-183X
Copyright note: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99646378902621
Output Type: Journal article