Climate Change Induced Migration: A Gendered Conceptual Framework
Climate Change Induced Migration: A Gendered Conceptual Framework

Summary/Abstract: An emerging body of research explores the relationship between climate change and migration. Much of this literature has been gender-blind, but where gender has been considered, the literature suggests that migration responses have differed between men and women. Existing theoretical approaches to migration do not provide a conceptual framework for understanding these differences. In this paper, we ask how existing conceptual frameworks explaining migration might be combined and extended to specifically incorporated gendered climate impacts and responses, and we propose such an extended conceptual framework. Specifically, this paper does three things. First, it critically reviews existing theoretical frameworks on migration through a gender lens. Bringing insights from feminist economics and related empirical research to bear on existing frameworks explaining migration, we identify five pathways through which gender differences can influence climate-induced household decision-making about migration. Building on this, we propose a genderaware conceptual framework to explain the gendered decision-making processes behind climate change-induced migration.

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