Mallick Bishawjit, van den Berg Julia
Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geoscience, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Popul Environ. 2025;47(1):7. doi: 10.1007/s11111-025-00475-w. Epub 2025 Jan 22.
This study examines the impact of intergenerational learning and intellectual capital on women's voluntary decisions to remain in place despite environmental risks. By investigating how women experience the decision to stay through intergenerational knowledge transfer, we analyze the adaptability of communities facing climate-driven livelihood challenges and the intricate socio-ecological factors that tie individuals to their homes. Through life-story interviews with 70 women from 25 households in five environmental hazard-prone sites in Bangladesh, the study reveals nuanced patterns of traditional gender roles that both support and limit women's autonomy in making mobility choices. Although mobility decisions vary across site and scale, systemic issues such as arranged child marriage, financial instability, (traditional) home-bound duties, male authority over mobility decisions, and gendered expectations consistently emerged as barriers to women's (non-)migration, even when they aspired to leave. Thus, this research offers insights into gendered (non-)migration and its intergenerationality, which is inevitable in developing sustainable adaptation pathways.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11111-025-00475-w.
本研究考察了代际学习和智力资本对女性在面临环境风险时自愿选择留居原地的影响。通过调查女性如何通过代际知识传递来体验留居的决定，我们分析了面临气候驱动的生计挑战的社区的适应能力，以及将个人与家园联系在一起的复杂社会生态因素。通过对来自孟加拉国五个易受环境危害地区25个家庭的70名女性进行生活故事访谈，该研究揭示了传统性别角色的细微模式，这些模式既支持又限制了女性在做出流动选择时的自主性。尽管流动决策因地点和规模而异，但诸如包办童婚、经济不稳定、（传统的）居家职责、男性对流动决策的权威以及性别期望等系统性问题一直是女性（非）迁移的障碍，即使她们渴望离开。因此，本研究为性别化的（非）迁移及其代际性提供了见解，这在制定可持续适应途径中是不可避免的。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s11111-025-00475-w获取的补充材料。
