1st Edition

Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change

202 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and... Read more

Chapter 1: Migration and floods in Southeast Asia: A mobile political ecology of vulnerability, resilience and social justice

Rebecca Elmhirst, Carl Middleton and Bernadette P. Resurrección

Chapter 2: Living with the flood: A political ecology of fishing, farming, and migration around Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Carl Middleton and Borin Un

Chapter 3: Migrants seeking out and living with floods: A case study of Mingalar Kwet Thet settlement, Yangon, Myanmar

Maxime Boutry

Chapter 4: Risky spaces, vulnerable households, and mobile lives in Laos: Quo vadis flooding and migration?

Albert Salamanca, Outhai Soukkhy, Joshua Rigg and Jacqueline Ernerot

Chapter 5: Living with and against floods in Bangkok and Thailand’s central plain

Naruemon Thabchumpon and Narumon Arunotai

Chapter 6: Generating Vulnerability to Floods: Poor Urban Migrants and the State in Metro Manila, Philippines

Edsel E. Sajor and Bernadette P. Resurrección

Chapter 7: Responses to Flooding: Migrants’ Perspectives in Hanoi, Vietnam

Nguyen Tuan Anh and Pham Quang Minh

Chapter 8: Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

Rebecca Elmhirst and Ari Darmastuti

Chapter 9: Vulnerabilities of Local People and Migrants due to Flooding in Malaysia: Identifying Gaps for Better Management

Mohammad Imam Hasan Reza, Er Ah Choy and Joy Jacqueline Pereira

Chapter 10: Floods and migrants: Synthesis and implications for policy

Louis Lebel, Supang Chantavanich and Werasit Sittitrai

Biography

Carl Middleton is Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Social Development Studies in the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Rebecca Elmhirst is Reader in Human Geography and Deputy Head of the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton, UK.

Supang Chantavanich is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Political Science, Institute of Asian Studies, and adviser to the Asian Research Center for Migration, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.