Abstract

ABSTRACT Migration is often approached as being a consequence of climate change with a significant degree of causality invoked. The role of government and other institutions, particularly in the local space where households take decisions as they face the effects of slow-onset climate change tends not to be studied. The paper seeks to address the role of these institutions in the local space in which households operate and how they contribute to shaping the context for households’ agency with regard to their mobility practices. The paper draws on data collected in Ethiopia as part of a research programme on climate-related mobility. 1 It argues for a more nuanced approach to mobility practices in which the role of government and other institutions, formal and informal, can point to ways for understanding migration and mobility generally as not being a problem, but as a practice to be managed and incorporated into policies for climate change adaptation. In so doing, the paper challenges the approach of many international organizations and NGOs for whom climate change is seen as the cause of migration.

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