PhD Human Geography and Urban Studies 'Seasonal Labour Migration from Satkhira, Bangladesh to Urban and Peri-Urban Spaces: A form of In-/Ex-Situ Envir

This PhD project explores seasonal labour migration from Satkhira, Bangladesh to urban and peri-urban spaces within the country. It seeks to contextualise seasonal labour migration from the region in relation to histories of land use change, dispossession, environmental hazards and changes in the landscape and the effect these factors have on livelihood options in the region. The project builds on a growing literature that decentres climate as the cause of environmental change in coastal Bangladesh and shifts focus to infrastructure, land use change, dispossession, and development regimes. By utilising a multi-sited and mobile ethnographic approach, this research will trace how changes in livelihood opportunities in the sending location translate into seasonal labour migrants finding livelihoods in urban and peri-urban locations. Aiming to give more holistic insights into the lives, motivations and relationships that shape patterns of rural to urban mobility from environmentally changing regions of Bangladesh while drawing from literature related to political ecology, climate/environmental mobilities and adaptation. A mobile and multi-sited ethnographic approach was selected for its utility in understanding migration as a multi-sited process connected to various relationships in travel, and the sending and receiving location. This is influenced by a range of scholarship within the mobilities paradigm that highlights the advantages mobile and multi-sited ethnographies offer in providing nuance in an interconnected and globalised world. This approach offers opportunities to better understand migration in Bangladesh as previous research has largely focused on migration in the context of the sending or receiving location. Further, this research seeks to address the limited empirical research that interrogates migration in relation to concepts like environmental displacement, and climate adaptive migration in Bangladesh. In recent years, political ecologists such as...