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DOI	10.1016/j.crm.2024.100614
	Is climate migration successful adaptation or maladaptation? A holistic assessment of outcomes in Kenya
	Tubi, Amit; Israeli, Yael
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2212-0963
起始页码	44
卷号	44
英文摘要	Research is increasingly approaching migration as an adaptation to climate risk. Yet our understanding of the migration-adaptation nexus remains limited, as most studies conceptualize migration as either adaptive or maladaptive and focus on specific aspects of vulnerability. To advance a comprehensive understanding of migration's successful and maladaptive effects, this study employs a two-dimensional conceptualization of migration outcomes, encompassing a range of vulnerability variables at the migrant and household levels and migrants' well-being. This framework is applied to the case of drought-influenced migration from agro-pastoralist northern Kenya to the City of Nairobi. Based on semi-structured interviews with 40 long-term migrants, we identify quantitative and qualitative migration-induced changes in the examined variables. The results highlight the complexity of migration outcomes. Effects on the broad range of variables comprising vulnerability's exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity components are mixed. Migrants' ability to provide their families' basic needs has improved, although only half of the households could allocate remittances to reconstruct their drought-stricken livelihood sources in northern Kenya. Moreover, the profound change in social-environmental settings induced by migration exposed migrants to unfamiliar risks, such as urban crime, but also to new sources of adaptive capacity, such as knowledge enabling the development of climate-insensitive livelihoods. However, migration's partial success in reducing vulnerability came at the expense of migrants' well-being, which diminished drastically. These findings stress the need for fundamental changes in the migration-as-adaptation literature, including a more thorough engagement with the temporalities and scope of migration's effects on adaptation, greater attention to the tradeoffs that are integral to migration as adaptation, and a shift to analytical frameworks that consider maladaptive effects alongside successful ones. We argue that these changes are essential to develop interventions that maximize migration's adaptive potential while minimizing its maladaptive effects.
英文关键词	Migration; Successful adaptation; Maladaptation; Vulnerability; Climate change; Drought
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001236726700001
来源期刊	CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/304733
作者单位	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tubi, Amit,Israeli, Yael. Is climate migration successful adaptation or maladaptation? A holistic assessment of outcomes in Kenya[J],2024,44.
APA	Tubi, Amit,&Israeli, Yael.(2024).Is climate migration successful adaptation or maladaptation? A holistic assessment of outcomes in Kenya.CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT,44.
MLA	Tubi, Amit,et al."Is climate migration successful adaptation or maladaptation? A holistic assessment of outcomes in Kenya".CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT 44(2024).