FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Migration seminar: Conceptualizing Climate Migration
Thursday 23 May, 14:15 - 16:00
Niagara, floor 9, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, or Zoom
Conceptualizing Climate Migration with a Family Life Course Perspective: A New Pilot Project
Speaker
Holly E. Reed, Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). She has served as Editor-in-Chief of International Migration Review since 2022. Holly Reed is Malmö City Guest Professor in Migration Studies at MIM during 2023–2024.
Attendance
This is a hybrid seminar. You are welcome to connect via Zoom or join us at MIM seminar room, floor 9, Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1. To attend on campus, please gather by the reception area at 14.05. Zoom link will be available later. If you have any questions, send an email to mim@mau.se.
Abstract
Climate change and concomitant hazard events (e.g., floods, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires) are rapidly affecting human lives around the globe, but little is known about how they interact with and impact households and families. In this innovative pilot project, our interdisciplinary research team will systematically link and analyze longitudinal social survey data and geo-coded climate and land data to understand the impacts of climate and weather-related disasters on individual and household migration, household and family structures, and social and financial supports. We aim to demonstrate the feasibility of these linked datasets as a model for further socio-demographic climate research using similar types of data globally.
