Huq, E. orcid.org/0000-0001-5235-4896 and Shafique, T. orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-4539 (2023) People move, policies don’t: discursive partition against climate-impacted dwellers in urbanizing Bangladesh. Environment and Urbanization, 35 (1). pp. 91-100. ISSN: 0956-2478
Abstract
In Bangladesh, internal climate displacement will continue pushing millions to the urbanizing centres where migrants make homes in informal settlements. These settlements, too, are sites for climate hazards such as heat stress and flooding, affecting climate-displaced and economic migrants alike. The demands of growing migrant populations and long-term informal settlement dwellers converge around rights to secure land and housing, acknowledged in policies at both national and urban scales. Yet, settlements continue to face evictions, revealing a significant mismatch between policy aspirations and concrete urban planning strategies. Based on our ongoing research in the informal settlements of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we point to a structural condition we call discursive partition which continues to exclude climate-impacted dwellers from urban resilience policies despite their formal recognition in national climate policies. Based on evidence of how climate-impacted dwellers themselves lead urban adaptation, we point to three critical revisitations for just climate adaptation plans.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | climate migration; discursive partition; epistemicide; global South; urban adaptation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture and Landscape |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2025 11:09 |
Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2025 11:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/09562478221149863 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:231849 |