DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

Migration, Transformation and Sustainability

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Description

Project beneficiaries: The ESRC-funded elements of the project will primarily benefit people in Bangladesh, a Least Developed Country. The project research findings will contribute to increased resilience of poor and insecure migrant communities in developing countries, especially in Bangladesh. The research aims to promote and enable joined-up and transformative approaches to inclusive development, informed by analysis of outcomes and behaviour putting poor people’s experiences, aspirations and capacities at its core. Specifically, the planned activities will provide new insights into the impacts and experiences of migrant populations, including ethnic minorities, in highly urbanized areas of Bangladesh. It will do so through co-production between researchers, migrants and planners of new empirical data on how migrant perceived wellbeing, place-attachment and adaptive capacity intersect with poverty, security and the environment. Project description: This research integrates comprehensive insights on migration into theories of transformation to sustainability. There is unprecedented concern over involuntary migration globally affecting insecurity and human rights. But both domestic and international migration has enormous transformative potential for individuals and societies. Transformation theories assume static populations and fail to recognize both positive and negative impacts of the movement of people. This gap limits explanations and intervention strategies for sustainability. The objective is therefore to use theory and rigorous empirical research to expand knowledge of transformations to sustainability by incorporating migration dynamics. These specifically include: the impact of aggregate flows of people on sustainability; the individual lifecourse dimensions of sustainability; and the governance of migration and sustainability. The research will develop a comprehensive migration-sustainability model, and develop insights on sustainability strategies at local, national and international scales. It will build global capacity of social science to explain and engage with migration dimensions of transformations to sustainability. The interdisciplinary social-science led consortium from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa builds on on-going methodological innovation and deep collaboration. The research design involves modelling, observations and action research at global scales and in research sites representing the full range of so-called migration transitions. The outcome will be co-designed advances in theory and salient and workable sustainability strategies reflecting real world migration dynamics.

Objectives

The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.

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Location

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Bangladesh

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