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9. Policy Opportunities and Constraints for Addressing Urban Precarity of Migrant Populations.

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Siddiqui, Tasneem, Szaboova, Lucy, Adger, W. Neil, Safra de Campos, Ricardo, Bhuiyan, Mohammad Rashed Alam, and Billah, Tamim

Subjects
IMMIGRANTS, CITY dwellers, PRECARITY, SUSTAINABLE urban development, INNER cities, PUBLIC spaces, DELIBERATIVE democracy
Abstract

Addressing sources and drivers of precarity among marginalized migrant populations in urban spaces is central to making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable for all. Yet dominant policy discourses continue to frame migrants as problematic causes of insecurity and tend to exclude them from policy processes. Deliberative democratic theory suggests that inclusive processes have the potential to create innovative solutions for resilient cities. This study elicits and reports on self‐identified sources of precarity and insecurity as experienced by new low‐income migrant populations. It combines visual ethnography and deliberative democracy tools in an action research process that facilitated dialogue between migrant populations, urban planners and policy stakeholders. The objective is to elicit policy opportunities and constraints for changing dominant discourses, with a view to enhance marginalized lives and to implement sustainable urban infrastructure in Chattogram, the second largest city of Bangladesh. The results show options for addressing precarity, developed through facilitating migrants and planners to engage with each other's perspectives. Priorities include focusing on insecure tenure, exposure to environmental hazards, and representation in planning processes. Integrating the perspectives and lived experiences of migrant urban populations into policy processes potentially leads to more effective, sustainable and legitimate solutions. Precarity is experienced by rural‐urban migrants across multiple wellbeing dimensions, which extend beyond material condition and also include social relationships and practices, physical and mental health, dignity, education and nutrition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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10. Trading disaster: Containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity

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Parsons, Laurie, Safra de Campos, Ricardo, Moncaster, Alice, Cook, Ian, Siddiqui, Tasneem, Abenayake, Chethika, Jayasinghe, Amila Buddhika, Mishra, Pratik, Billah, Tamim, Parsons, Laurie, Safra de Campos, Ricardo, Moncaster, Alice, Cook, Ian, Siddiqui, Tasneem, Abenayake, Chethika, Jayasinghe, Amila Buddhika, Mishra, Pratik, and Billah, Tamim

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This paper examines how global trade shapes and intensifies disasters. Juxtaposing three basic, everyday consumer goods – a t‐shirt, a brick, and a tea bag – with disasters manifesting in their respective global supply chains, it highlights how climate change, local environmental degradation, and carbon emissions are dynamically shaped by consumption. Analysis of data collected in South and Southeast Asia reveals that local environmental degradation linked to international trade interacts with global climate change and the policies intended to mitigate it, influencing how and where disasters manifest. Underpinning this analysis is the physical and conceptual presence of the container. With more and more of the natural environment packaged and redistributed for global trade, the container thinking that underpins these logistics is increasingly imbricated in environmental processes. Indeed, as this paper aims to show, the container logic that frames analysis of these processes – linked to and drawn from the logistics of global trade – serves as both obfuscator and actor in the global landscape of environmental risk.

11. Trading disaster: Containers and container thinking in the production of climate precarity

Author

Parsons, Laurie, Safra de Campos, Ricardo, Moncaster, Alice, Cook, Ian, Siddiqui, Tasneem, Abenayake, Chethika, Jayasinghe, Amila Buddhika, Mishra, Pratik, Billah, Tamim, Parsons, Laurie, Safra de Campos, Ricardo, Moncaster, Alice, Cook, Ian, Siddiqui, Tasneem, Abenayake, Chethika, Jayasinghe, Amila Buddhika, Mishra, Pratik, and Billah, Tamim

Abstract

This paper examines how global trade shapes and intensifies disasters. Juxtaposing three basic, everyday consumer goods – a t‐shirt, a brick, and a tea bag – with disasters manifesting in their respective global supply chains, it highlights how climate change, local environmental degradation, and carbon emissions are dynamically shaped by consumption. Analysis of data collected in South and Southeast Asia reveals that local environmental degradation linked to international trade interacts with global climate change and the policies intended to mitigate it, influencing how and where disasters manifest. Underpinning this analysis is the physical and conceptual presence of the container. With more and more of the natural environment packaged and redistributed for global trade, the container thinking that underpins these logistics is increasingly imbricated in environmental processes. Indeed, as this paper aims to show, the container logic that frames analysis of these processes – linked to and drawn from the logistics of global trade – serves as both obfuscator and actor in the global landscape of environmental risk.

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