TY - CHAP
T1 - From Sea to City: Migration and Social Well-Being in Coastal Cambodia
AU - Asif, Furqan
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Small-scale fishing communities along Cambodia’s coast have relied on marine resources as a mainstay of their livelihood for many decades. However, in the past 10 to 15 years, environmental change, increased fishing pressure, illegal, underreported, and unregulated fishing, and sand mining have contributed to a progressive decline in their catch. At the same time, economic opportunities outside the coastal village have acted as a draw and catalyzed migration to secondary cities and to the capital. This study examines out-migration of people from coastal communities to the city of Koh Kong. Using qualitative data collected from three fishing villages, I explore why people leave and why others stay in the village. In the context of city provisioning systems, the study also reveals a shift in climate-related vulnerability for coastal village migrants when they become urban residents. The study highlights the importance of looking not only at city planning, infrastructure challenges, and climate risks but also at the attendant social effects that phenomena such as migration have on people who are increasingly on the move. Such a perspective offers a more people-centred understanding of urban climate resilience in Cambodia, and potentially for other countries across Southeast Asia.
AB - Small-scale fishing communities along Cambodia’s coast have relied on marine resources as a mainstay of their livelihood for many decades. However, in the past 10 to 15 years, environmental change, increased fishing pressure, illegal, underreported, and unregulated fishing, and sand mining have contributed to a progressive decline in their catch. At the same time, economic opportunities outside the coastal village have acted as a draw and catalyzed migration to secondary cities and to the capital. This study examines out-migration of people from coastal communities to the city of Koh Kong. Using qualitative data collected from three fishing villages, I explore why people leave and why others stay in the village. In the context of city provisioning systems, the study also reveals a shift in climate-related vulnerability for coastal village migrants when they become urban residents. The study highlights the importance of looking not only at city planning, infrastructure challenges, and climate risks but also at the attendant social effects that phenomena such as migration have on people who are increasingly on the move. Such a perspective offers a more people-centred understanding of urban climate resilience in Cambodia, and potentially for other countries across Southeast Asia.
KW - Southeast Asia
KW - climate vulnerability
KW - climate change impact Cambodia
KW - urban geography
KW - Urban Governance
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98968-6_8
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-98968-6_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-98968-6_8
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783319989679
SN - 9783319989686
T3 - The Urban Book Series
BT - Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia
A2 - Daniere, Amrita G.
A2 - Garschagen, Matthias
PB - Springer
ER -