Moving Beyond Stereotypes: The Role of Gender in the Environmental Change and Human Mobility Nexus
Publisher: Climate and Development
Author(s): Ingrid Boas, Nine de Pater, and Basundhara T. Furlong
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Gender
Countries: Bangladesh
Women are often assumed to be most vulnerable to environmental risk and climate change because of often-experienced constraints in mobility. A common-held assumption is that women are fixated in place and experience forced immobility in the context of environmental change, whilst the men can move to other places. In building on feminist and mobilities scholarship, this article critically interrogates this assumption and seeks to move towards a more plural understanding of gender-environment-mobility relations. Through a study of human mobility in coastal Bangladesh, we interrogate what it means for women to stay in places of environmental and climate risk and how staying may hamper or enhance small-scale mobilities.