In the first two years of the project, we assembled a dynamic interdisciplinary team of postdoctoral migration scholars spanning anthropology, geography, sociology, and political science. Together, we explore mobilities and migration in the context of climate change from a gendered perspective. Our work is grounded in a shared commitment to bridging academic disciplines and local and global perspectives.
In late 2024, we held a series of workshops (in collaboration with the GRABS project) to develop shared tools and approaches for collaborative research, in addition to our regular meetings focused on literature reviews and fieldwork preparation. These workshops explored key themes such as gendered and intersectional approaches in migration research, participatory and creative methodologies, research ethics in fieldwork with migrant persons, and researchers’ well-being during fieldwork. We benefited from the insights of leading migration scholars invited as key note speakers to our workshops. These events helped strengthen our theoretical and methodological foundations while offering space for reflection ahead of our fieldwork phase.
One of our achievements has thus been to work through these milestones towards a shared analytical framework that builds bridges across the disciplines we mobilise collectively. We engage for instance with cross-disciplinary approaches such as political ecology and specific concepts such as migrant subjectivities from anthropology, the notion of habitability as foregrounded by geographers, and the critical insights of gender studies as a transdisciplinary field. We combine this integrative approach with participatory methods to enable us to better understand how localised implications of climate change are experienced and responded to, especially in relation to mobility and gender relations in the context of broader structural inequalities. We hence understand slow-onset climate impacts not as isolated drivers of migration, but as continuous forces shaping mobility before, during, and after people move —mediated by social perceptions and embedded in structural conditions. The interdisciplinary and participatory dimensions of our research pave the ground for regional workshops to be organised in Year 3 of the project with our partners in in Morocco, Mexico, and Malaysia.
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