Safe and sustainable cities: human security, migration, and well-being
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Exeter
Department Name: Geography
Abstract
This project seeks to incorporate migrant perspectives and sources of innovation into urban planning to build safer and more sustainable cities. The project represents frontier research in framing new migrant populations as sources of innovation and sustainability, and in using multiple methods to incorporate new migrant population perspectives into sustainable places.
The research addresses environmental sustainability by examining the environmental risks to new populations in cities, including exposure to environmental hazards and access to environmental services such as water. Its addresses poverty by examining social exclusion of migrant populations that are often invisible in policy and planning. It addresses conflict and security by conceptualizing the human security of migrant populations as their ability to create secure lives, overcome discrimination, and build social cohesion in destination areas.
The research design involves examining human security and overcoming exclusion with example groups in a rapidly expanding city in a low-income country; working directly with migrant populations and urban planners to generate new priorities; and learning lessons that can be generalized and applied across the Global South. The planned research involves planners in Chittagong in coastal Bangladesh and its new migrant populations, including some displaced because of environmental hazards, and ethnic minority groups. The research involves multiple methods: surveys of migrants focusing on their well-being, their sources of insecurity, and their potential to build attachment to sustainable places; photo-elicitation with both planners and migrants as participants; and deliberative workshops to build empathy between migrants and planners and designing new interventions. The research builds on and seeks new directions for the fields of human security, migration, urban planning, and development studies.
The research addresses environmental sustainability by examining the environmental risks to new populations in cities, including exposure to environmental hazards and access to environmental services such as water. Its addresses poverty by examining social exclusion of migrant populations that are often invisible in policy and planning. It addresses conflict and security by conceptualizing the human security of migrant populations as their ability to create secure lives, overcome discrimination, and build social cohesion in destination areas.
The research design involves examining human security and overcoming exclusion with example groups in a rapidly expanding city in a low-income country; working directly with migrant populations and urban planners to generate new priorities; and learning lessons that can be generalized and applied across the Global South. The planned research involves planners in Chittagong in coastal Bangladesh and its new migrant populations, including some displaced because of environmental hazards, and ethnic minority groups. The research involves multiple methods: surveys of migrants focusing on their well-being, their sources of insecurity, and their potential to build attachment to sustainable places; photo-elicitation with both planners and migrants as participants; and deliberative workshops to build empathy between migrants and planners and designing new interventions. The research builds on and seeks new directions for the fields of human security, migration, urban planning, and development studies.
Planned Impact
The research process itself will generate impact as it involves co-production between researchers, migrants and planners and new empirical data on how migrant perceived wellbeing, place-attachment intersect with poverty, security and the environment.
Who will benefit? The four groups are: 1) migrant populations in Chittagong in coastal Bangladesh; 2) urban and health planners in Chittagong; 3) Bangladesh government agencies responsible for economic development, environment, urban planning, water, housing and the rights of ethnic minorities; 4) international development stakeholders focused on migration, labour, and the implementation of SDG11 'to Make Cities Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable'.
How will they benefit? Migrant populations will benefit by changes that will recognise their contribution and potential for implementing sustainable development. City planners will benefit by having new information on critical social processes that are a potential resource for the implementation of sustainability. Bangladesh government agencies and international development agencies will benefit through the example of Chittagong on the role and potential for migrant communities to engage and participate in planning for sustainability. Bangladesh will ultimately benefit through increased social cohesion and security in urban centres and through exposure to national and global networks on urban resilience and human security.
What will be done? The migrant groups and urban planners will be directly engaged in the planned research, including deliberative processes that build empathy between their perspectives. Bangladesh government agencies will benefit from direct dissemination of the research, building on long-standing engagement by the research team in national policy processes. The international development community will be engaged in academic and policy routes, such as the Global Forum in Migration and Development.
Who will benefit? The four groups are: 1) migrant populations in Chittagong in coastal Bangladesh; 2) urban and health planners in Chittagong; 3) Bangladesh government agencies responsible for economic development, environment, urban planning, water, housing and the rights of ethnic minorities; 4) international development stakeholders focused on migration, labour, and the implementation of SDG11 'to Make Cities Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable'.
How will they benefit? Migrant populations will benefit by changes that will recognise their contribution and potential for implementing sustainable development. City planners will benefit by having new information on critical social processes that are a potential resource for the implementation of sustainability. Bangladesh government agencies and international development agencies will benefit through the example of Chittagong on the role and potential for migrant communities to engage and participate in planning for sustainability. Bangladesh will ultimately benefit through increased social cohesion and security in urban centres and through exposure to national and global networks on urban resilience and human security.
What will be done? The migrant groups and urban planners will be directly engaged in the planned research, including deliberative processes that build empathy between their perspectives. Bangladesh government agencies will benefit from direct dissemination of the research, building on long-standing engagement by the research team in national policy processes. The international development community will be engaged in academic and policy routes, such as the Global Forum in Migration and Development.
Publications
Adger W
(2020)
Commentary: Inequality, precarity and sustainable ecosystems as elements of urban resilience
in Urban Studies
Adger W
(2020)
Human security of urban migrant populations affected by length of residence and environmental hazards
in Journal of Peace Research
Adger W
(2020)
Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change
in One Earth
Adger WN
(2020)
Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development
Barnett Jon
(2018)
Mobile Worlds: Choice at the Intersection of Demographic and Environmental Change
in ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, VOL 43
Conway D
(2019)
The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions
in Nature Climate Change
Franco Gavonel M
(2021)
The migration-sustainability paradox: transformations in mobile worlds
in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Lucy Szaboova
(2019)
Safe and Sustainable Cities: migration, security and wellbeing
Neil Adger
(2019)
Building empathy for safe and sustainable cities
Siddiqui T
(2020)
Policy Opportunities and Constraints for Addressing Urban Precarity of Migrant Populations
in Global Policy
| Description | This project has generated new knowledge on how migrants can be integrated into planning for safe and resilient cities. It did so through migrants self-identifying sources of urban precarity and insecurity and through action research with city-scale urban planners and migrants seeking to implement sustainable lives and city infrastructure in Chattogram, the second largest city of Bangladesh. It has identified sources and drivers of precarity among vulnerable migrant populations in urban spaces: insecure tenure, material aspects of wellbeing, access to services and labour markets, and health issues associated with water logging and waste pollution are the principal dimensions of precarity as self-identified by migrant populations. It has shown that these reducing these sources of insecurity are central to making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable for all, when cities are growing rapidly through influxes of migrant populations. An analysis of policy documents in Bangladesh shows that the dominant policy discourses continue to frame migrants as problematic causes of insecurity and continue to exclude them from policy processes. The study further elicits policy opportunities and constraints for changing dominant discourses and addressing urban precarity through deliberative participatory processes. An action research process developed possible solutions to addressing precarity, facilitated migrants and planners to take each other's perspectives, and identifies policy priorities through city and national scale consultations with policy makers and urban development and planning stakeholders. |
| Exploitation Route | The participatory processes reveal that migrants' perspectives and lived experiences are in practical ways invisible to planning authorities and described by planners themselves as not being adequately addressed in existing urban policies and planning. Current planning therefore has limited effectiveness in creating safe and inclusive urban spaces. However, integrating the perspectives and lived experiences of migrant urban populations into policy processes is shown to potentially lead to more effective, sustainable and legitimate solutions. The research findings have practical implications for processes of consultation in the Bangladeshi context and are being taken forward by city authorities in Chattogram. Further funded initiatives are seeking to learn lessons for other rapidly expanding cities, notably through engagement with stakeholders in Khulna and Dhaka. Internationally, the findings and methods are relevant for planning in the context of growing populations and subsequent funded research under the Belmont Forum is replicating and developing the concepts with a multi-city study in North America, Europe, west Africa and again in Bangladesh. |
| Sectors | Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/safeandsustainablecities/ |
| Description | 1 Uptake of consultation and participatory processes by the Mayor of Chattogram and the Chattogram Development Authority. The Mayor and Chief Town Planner of the Development Authority both endorsed the project findings and attended the policy consultation events hosted by the project in Chattogram and Dhaka. Furthermore, the Development Authority became a partner in a follow-on project that provided training on photovoice as a community engagement tool for urban planners, architects and other professional stakeholders. Chattogram's Chief Town Planner expressed commitment to participatory planning processes and described some of the provisions that are being put in place to feed into the next Chattogram Five-Year Plan. The skills provided by the training can strengthen the effective delivery of these initiatives. 2 Commission by the General Economic Division of the central government of Bangladesh to provide information on the role of migration in planning for climate change. Prof Neil Adger and Prof Tasneem Siddiqui of the project provided an invited briefing in March 2019 to Division senior staff and analysts on climate change and migration. The sessions included discussion on opportunities for incorporating knowledge generated by the project into planning for the Bangladesh national Five Year Plan and policy developments to support it around rights and regulations for migrant populations. 3 The project team developed Bangladesh's National Strategy for Internal Displacement. Professor Siddiqui was appointed to develop an Action Plan based on the National Strategy. To support consultations with representatives from different ministries including Disaster Management and Relief, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Water Resource, Land, and Local Government, the team led by Prof Siddiqui conducted focus groups in six hotspots identified in the country's Delta Plan 2100. The synthesis work provide insights into dimensions of migration that could help inform the discussions. The project team helped to appoint and implement the International Advisory Group on Action Plan for Implementation of the National Strategy on Internal Displacement, that includes development funders, key knowledge brokers and international scientists. The project team also participated in the international launch of the Action plan at the COP26 event at the Bangladesh Pavilion in Glasgow, led by Professor Siddiqui, and including both the Minister for Disaster Management and the and Relief and the Minister for Environment and Climate Change. This brought attention to the issue of internal displacement as a key element of Non-Economic Loss and Damage in the UNFFCC negotiation process. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Oral evidence on Implications of climate change on migration delivered by Ricardo Safra de Campos |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Training consolidation workshop with planners, architects and other practitioners in Chattogram, led by Lucy Szaboova and Ricardo Safra de Campos |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The workshop was a follow-on from the training workshop held in Aug 2019. The workshop consolidated learning and provided a platform for discussion about how participatory urban planning can be implemented in the future in Chattogram. Two planners presented their photovoice projects, which addressed different urban planning challenges and captured the lived experiences of these by community members. The presentations led to vivid discussions. Additionally, academics who were not awarded a grant also reported that they have started using photovoice in their research and obtained funding from other sources to do so. This was an unanticipated benefit and demonstrated the confidence participants gained fro the training and the willingness to use the approach to capture diverse voices. |
| Description | Training workshop delivered to urban planners, architects and other practitioners by Lucy Szaboova |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Planners and practitioners who took part in the two-day training workshop gained skills in designing, implementing and analysing findings from photovoice projects. two participants were awarded a small grant to undertake their own project between Sep and Dec 2019. The participants gained an understanding about the potential use of photovoice as a tool for community engagement and participatory planning. Participants reflected on the role of this tool in capturing the voices of marginalised residents such as migrants who face additional constraints in accessing public services and infrastructure, are disproportionately exposed to environmental risks and hazards and experience other forms of vulnerability and precarity in the city. The workshop was a follow-on from the Safe and sustainable cities project and responded to request by planners who participated in the photovoice in the project and expressed the wish to learn about the method and how it could be applied in their practice. The team prepared a how-to-guide on photovoice with the objective that this will be updated and adapted into a practitioner's guide based on the discussions during the training workshop and the training consolidation workshop held in Jan 2020. The event also received media coverage in the local media. |
| Description | Migration, Transformation and Sustainability |
| Amount | £372,232 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/S007687/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Power of partnership: Voices of residents & city planners as sources of innovation for sustainable urban governance |
| Amount | £21,130 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) |
| Organisation | Chittagong Development Authority |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration led to a joint proposal for Impact Accelerator funding from the GCRF-funded SHLC in Glasgow. Lucy Szaboova and Ricardo Safra de Campos worked with the CDA on this extension project, which set out to deliver training on photovoice as a community engagement tool to urban planners, architects and other professionals in Chattogram. The Exeter team was responsible for securing the funding and delivering two workshops to the above stakeholders in Chattogram. The team also produced a how-to-guide on photovoice, which is currently being updated and adapted into a guide for planners and practitioners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our main contact at CDA was Mr Shahinul Islam Khan, the Chief Town Planner for Chattogram. Mr Khan first engaged with the project during the local policy dissemination workshop in Chattogram, in January 2019. He also attended and was one of the key speakers at the national policy event in Dhaka, during March 2019. The team approached him following this event to discuss the possibility of collaborating on the impact accelerator project. Mr Khan was a co-applicant/named partner on the SHLC application and played a key role in organising the workshops. Mr Khan was a gate keeper for the policy and practitioner community and worked closely with our RMMRU partners in organising the workshops. He was also an active participant. |
| Impact | Photovoice training workshop with urban planners, architects and other relevant professionals - August 2019 Training consolidation workshop with urban planners, architects and other relevant professionals - January 2019 Two photovoice mini-projects led by urban planners of Chattogram - September-December 2019 How-to guide for photovoice - written by the project team and given to participants Seminar given at the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology - August 2019 Media coverage of seminar given at CUET These outputs are recorded under the engagement events section of ResearchFish |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Briefing to international organisation - UNICEF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Briefing to international organisation - UNICEF people visit to Exeter 22 January 2019. "Migration, climate change and sustainability." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CNN World article - Ricardo Safra de Campos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Ricardo Safra de Campos cited in CNN World article "While the rich world braces for the climate change of the future, the poor world is already being devastated by it." Published on April 1st, 2019. Dr. Safra de Campos was asked to comment on the 2017 floods in Bangladesh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/31/africa/poorest-hit-the-hardest-climate-change-mozambique-intl/ind... |
| Description | Climate change major challenge for building sustainable cities - United News of Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Press coverage of the national policy dissemination workshop hosted by the project in Dhaka on the 13 March 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.unb.com.bd/category/Bangladesh/climate-change-major-challenge-for-building-sustainable-ci... |
| Description | Collaborative research at the Royal Geographic Society in London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Project team members attended an event at the RGS in London, which discussed research and collaboration on migration, sustainability and climate change with a focus on collaboration between the UK and Bangladesh. The event was attended by Prof Adger and Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference presentation at the TransRe Conference in Bonn, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk was jointly delivered by Ricardo Safra de Campos and Lucy Faulkner and was titled Understanding the security and wellbeing of new populations in Chattogram, Bangladesh, revealed through perceptions, voices and images of migrants. The talk received feedback and generated discussion among audience members, all of whom are working on some aspect of migration as adaptation. The conference also resulted in discussions about future collaboration between the Exeter team and TransRe project member, which is now under way in the form of a recently funded project that explores frontiers in the role of migration as adaptation strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Experts for inclusive dev interventions in rural-urban areas in Bangladesh - Migration News Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Media coverage of the national policy dissemination workshop hosted by the project in Dhaka on 13 March 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.migrationnewsbd.com/news/view/32067/38/Experts-for-inclusive-dev-interventions-in-rural-u... |
| Description | Human security of migrants is key to sustainability of growing cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written by Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos and TAsneem Siddiqui for the Climate and Conflict research project of PRIO. The blog was wed widely and created some discussion. It was picked up on Twitter and re-posted on Urban Transformations at https://blogs.prio.org/ClimateAndConflict/2019/03/the-human-security-of-migrants-is-key-to-sustainability-for-growing-cities/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://blogs.prio.org/ClimateAndConflict/2019/03/the-human-security-of-migrants-is-key-to-sustainab... |
| Description | Invited seminar talk at the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram - delivered by Lucy Szaboova |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar talk at the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chattogram - delivered by Lucy Szaboova. The University is the focal institution for training urban planners and architects. The talk was titled Photovoice as community engagement tool for participatory urban planning. It was followed by a Q&A and discussion from students and their lecturers who are also currently and formerly active urban planning professionals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lecture delivered at PRIO, Uppsala by Prof Neil Adger |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture delivered at PRIO, Uppsala by Prof Neil Adger under the title Sustainable urbanization? The wellbeing and security of migrants in growing cities. The talk was also followed up with a blog post, which was widely shared through social media (e.g. Twitter). The talk generated discussion and reflection on the topic among audience memebers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Long-term plan needed for sustainable cities - The Daily Star, Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Press coverage of the national policy dissemination event in Dhaka, which was hosted by the project on the 13 March 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/long-term-plan-needed-sustainable-cities-1714891 |
| Description | National Dissemination workshop on Safe and Sustainable cities: Human securities, migration and well-being |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | National Dissemination workshop on Safe and Sustainable cities: Human securities, migration and well-being. 14th March 2019, CIRDAP International Conference Centre, Dhaka Bangladesh. 120 participants. Opening plenary by Government of Bangladesh, Minister for Planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | PRIO Climate and Conflict Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog written for the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Climate and Conflict Blog. The blog entry discusses the role of migrants in sustainable urban development and highlights some of the challenges to the wellbeing and human security of migrants through a case study of Chattogram, which is directly based on the research from this project. The intended audience is a broad international readership interested in climate and migration issues, which may include practitioners, academics, policy stakeholders and others. Authors: W Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Tasneem Siddiqui |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://blogs.prio.org/ClimateAndConflict/2019/03/the-human-security-of-migrants-is-key-to-sustainab... |
| Description | Panel contribution at the Hargeysa International Book Fair by Ricardo Safra de Campos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel contribution at the Hargeysa International Book Fair by Ricardo Safra de Campos. The book fair also provided space for an exhibition using the images produced by project participants. A report on the event is available online - see web link. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://theimpactinitiative.net/blog/blog-protecting-migrants-city-hargeysa-international-book-fair |
| Description | Power of partnership for impactful research - blog for Safe and Sustainable Cities project website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog posted on the project website reflecting on the national dissemination workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Discussion points included: value of bringing migrant's lived experiences to the policy arena, challenges and opportunities for urban planning, lessons for sustainable urban development and implications for policy an practice. Authors: Ricardo Safra de Campos, University of Exeter; Lucy Szaboova, University of Exeter; Neil Adger, University of Exeter; Tasneem Siddiqui, University of Dhaka and RMMRU; Saleemul Huq, ICCCAD; Michael Collyer, University of Sussex. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/safeandsustainablecities/ |
| Description | Presentation delivered at the Environment and Sustainability Research Group meeting at the University of Exeter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The talk was delivered under the title The wellbeing and security of migrants and city planners in Chattogram by Lucy Faulkner, Mohammad Rashed alam Bhuiyan and Ricardo Safra de Campos. The talk generated a good amount of discussion among the audience members, many of whom are working on different aspects of adaptation, resilience and wellbeing research in the context of global environmental change and climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Seminar delivered at World Pop at the University of Southampton by Ricardo Safra de Campos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar delivered at World Pop at the University of Southampton by Ricardo Safra de Campos. The talk was titled Voices of migrants & city planners as sources of innovation for sustainable urban governance and built on collaboration and research conducted during the project and used examples from our empirical data and findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar delivered at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter by Lucy Szaboova |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar delivered at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter by Lucy Szaboova. The talk was titled Migration as adaptation: implications for urban planning and policy and used findings from the project to showcase some of the implications of migration for urban development and planning, as well as to highlight the challenges experienced by migrants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Seminar on 'Photo-voice for Community Engagement - The Daily Observer Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Media coverage of the seminar given at Chittagong University of Technology on Photovoice by Lucy Szaboova in August 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=213600 |
| Description | Sustainable urbanisation? The wellbeing and security of migrants in growing cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sustainable urbanisation? The wellbeing and security of migrants in growing cities. Public lecture by Neil Adger at Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, October 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk delivered at a training event on photovoice by Lucy Szaboova in Chattogram, Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk delivered at a training event on photovoice by Lucy Szaboova in Chattogram, Bangladesh. The talk was titled Safe and sustainable cities: human security, migration and wellbeing and presented findings from the research project. This achieved the following objectives: disseminated findings among study participants (some planners present also took part in the study), disseminated findings to a policy/practitioner audience, demonstrated how photovoice can be used a as powerful tool for participatory urban planning and governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk delivered by Lucy Szaboova at the local policy engagement workshop in Chattogram, Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk delivered by Lucy Szaboova at the local policy engagement workshop in Chattogram, Bangladesh. the talk was titled Challenges of urban living from the perspective of city planners and new migrants: local solutions. Audience members included urban planners, architects and academics, as well as the Mayor of Chattogram and the Chief Town Planner of the Chittagong Development Authority. The presentation also brought in project participants who communicated their lived experiences of the urban space to planners and policy stakeholders. The discussion that ensued showed engagement with the impact on the wellbeing and human security of migrants - this was important, because one of the project objectives was to foster empathy among decision makers towards the situation of migrants in cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk delivered by Prof Adger for the Lund University Centre for Sustainable Studies seminar series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The talk was given by Prof Adger and was titled Migration and its role in Transformations to Sustainability |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.lucsus.lu.se/event/lucsus-seminar-migration-and-its-role-in-transformations-to-sustainab... |
| Description | Talk delivered by Prof Tasneem Siddiqui at the local policy engagement workshop in Chattogram, Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk delivered by Prof Tasneem Siddiqui at the local policy engagement workshop in Chattogram, Bangladesh. The talk was titled Creating inclusive, safe and sustainable cities in the backdrop of climate change and migration. Prof Siddiqui highlighted some of the existing narratives regarding migration and migrants in Bangladeshi policies relating to urban development, disaster management and risk reduction and climate change. These prompted discussion among audience members. These points are also made in a peer reviewed paper, which is currently in review at the journal Global Policy. If accepted, the paper will feature in a special issue on mobility and precarity in the city. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk given by Prof Adger at the General Economic Division of Bangladesh in Dhaka |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk given by Prof Adger at the General Economic Division of Bangladesh in Dhaka and it was titled Migration and climate change. The talk generated discussion and questions from audience members, which considered how could project findings inform the design and implementation of the Government's planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Impact Initiative Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog reflecting on discussions during the project's national policy consultation event in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which was enriched by contributions from related projects (e.g. Migrants on the Margins) and other stakeholders (e.g. UNICEF): There are diverse pathways to improve migrants' experience in large urban centres in relation to sustainability, security, integration and wellbeing. At a recent event, researchers from ESRC-DFID funded projects: Safe and Sustainable Cities: human security, migration and wellbeing (led by University of Exeter); and Supporting the Social Mobility of Trapped Populations - see also Migrants on the Margin - (led by University of Sussex) - co-hosted policy dialogues with key stakeholders in Dhaka to maximise the impact and disseminate their research findings to policy makers, practitioners, researchers, NGOs and international donors including DFID and UNICEF. The workshop on safe and sustainable cities, jointly organised by country partners Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), attracted over 120 participants and received significant media coverage from both national and specialised media. Community leaders and migrants from Chattogram provided direct testimony of their concerns related to security and wellbeing. Authors: Ricardo Safra de Campos, Lucy Szaboova, Neil Adger, Tasneem Siddiqui, Sleemul Huq, Michael Collyer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.theimpactinitiative.net/news/news-migrants-provide-solutions-urban-sustainability |
| Description | Urban Transformations Blog, Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The sustainability of cities depends on the human security of new migrant populations. Human security, in this context means the ability and real prospect of living a meaningful life. A shorthand for human security is 'freedom from want and freedom from fear'. Many migrant populations globally face significant insecurity in their material wellbeing as well as social exclusion and exposure to crime, environmental hazards and other dimensions of precarity. Freedom from want and fear encapsulates, therefore, many of these aspects of the human security challenge in growing cities. Our hypothesis that sustainability of cities is related to the human security of migrants is based on two principal observations. First, it is the population dynamics of migration that drives urbanization processes in rapidly growing cities. Second, migrant populations are critical because they are potential agents of change, even in circumstances where they are economically and politically marginalised. We ask what is the role of migrants for the sustainable development of cities and how the wellbeing and human security of migrants shapes this potential. We use the research in Chattogram as the case study. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/blog/2019/the-human-security-of-migrants-is-key-to-sustain... |
| Description | While the rich world braces for the climate change of the future, the poor world is already being devastated by it |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Contribution for CNN World article led by Tara John -contribution by Ricardo Safra de Campos - the contribution is drawing on insights from the research project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/31/africa/poorest-hit-the-hardest-climate-change-mozambique-intl/ind... |