Migration, mobility and urbanization
Mobility has many different facets, ranging from geographic, social, and economic to cognitive forms of mobility. Their complex determinants and consequences are studied as key elements for sustainable development. Mobile societies are quicker in adapting to changes but not necessarily in a beneficial and sustainable way.
Migration is becoming an ever more relevant challenge, and strongly affects rural as well as urban and peri-urban societies. The number of refugees is increasing due to political and global change, violent conflicts, unsuitable living conditions and rampant food insecurity.
Within-country migration is one of the key determinants of urbanization, and growing urban and peri-urban areas with steadily increasing numbers of inhabitants are facing tremendous challenges.
ZEF A hosts the working group "ZEF in the City". Its members contribute to the ZEF research theme "Mobility, migration and urbanization".
Dajabón–Ouanamin. Thousands of Haitians cross the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti every week to trade goods at the binational market.
Migration is at the core of Nepal's agricultural and societal transformation. Male-selective migration is a coping strategy for declining yields, food insecurity, and climate change. Women mostly stay behind.
Ethiopia's capital Addis Abeba. Roughly half of the world's population lives in urban areas. Numbers are expected to rise to up to 70% by 2025 according to, among others, the World Bank.
ZEF Projects related to "Migration, mobility and urbanization"
Changemaker – Promoting co-designed sustainable health interventions with young changemakers for reduced risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in urban Burkina Faso, Kenya and Tanzania
ClimapAfrica – Climate change adaptation and coping strategies of smallholder fisherfolks along the Ghana Volta Lake
Game-theoretic approach of modelling and estimating the impact of human migration behaviour on malaria endemicity in Sub-Saharan Afric
Local Dynamics and Integration of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Outstanding Universal Value: Evidence from Cultural Landscapes in Ethiopia and Kenya
Malabo Montpellier Panel
RODAM – Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants
Sustainable dietary weight loss intervention for the prevention of type 2 diabetes: A family-based, randomised, controlled trial with overweight and obese adults in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso