The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research.
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Felicitas Hillmann is Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, and leads the research unit “Regeneration of Cities” at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner. She is Head of the Migration Unit for the project ‘New regional formations: rapid environmental change and migration’. She has published in the field of international migration, migrant entrepreneurship and urban transformation.
Marie Pahl is a researcher in the ‘Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change’ programme at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research investigates the competition for high-skilled migrants in Chinese city with a focus on urban transformation.
Birte Rafflenbeul is a researcher in the ‘Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change’ programme and a research associate at the University of Cologne. She conducts research on highly-skilled international migration and its impact on urban development in Guangzhou, China.
Harald Sterly is Scientific Coordinator of the research programme ‘Megacities-Megachallenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change’ at the University of Cologne. Current research interests include translocality and social change in South Asia and Western Africa.
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