University of Vienna Researchers Advance Knowledge in COVID-19 (Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management): Coronavirus – COVID-19

2023 JUL 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- Researchers detail new data in COVID-19. According to news reporting out of the University of Vienna by NewsRx editors, research stated, “In the debates over environmental impacts on migration, migration as adaptation has been acknowledged as a potential risk management strategy based on risk spreading and mutual insurance of people living spatially apart: migrants and family members that are left behind stay connected through a combination of financial and social remittances, joint decision-making and mutual commitment.”

The news editors obtained a quote from the research from University of Vienna: “Conceptualizing migration as adaptation through the lens of translocal livelihood systems enables us to identify the differentiated vulnerabilities of households and communities. COVID-19 and the restrictions on public life and mobility imposed by governments worldwide constituted a complex set of challenges for translocal systems and strategies, especially in the Global South. Focusing on examples, we highlight two points: first, the COVID-19 crisis shows the limits of migration and translocal livelihoods for coping with, and adapting to, climate and environmental risks. Second, as these restrictions hit on a systemic level and affect places of destination as well as origin, the crisis reveals specific vulnerabilities of the translocal livelihood systems themselves.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Based on the translocal livelihoods approach, we formulate insights and recommendations for policies that move beyond the narrow, short-term focus on the support of migrant populations alone and address the longer-term root causes of the vulnerabilities in translocal livelihoods systems.”

For more information on this research see: Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management. Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 2023,16(1):157-169. The publisher for Advances in Southeast Asian Studies is Society for South-East Asian Studies.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0093.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Gunnar Stange, University of Vienna.

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