| Subject: | Sociology \ Environmental Studies |
| Title: | Migration as Constrained Adaptation: Climate Change, Governance Failures, and Gendered Vulnerability in India |
| Author(s): | Sonali Singh |
| Published on: | 30th April 2026 |
| Published by: | Lyceum India |
| Name of the Journal: | Lyceum India Journal of Social Sciences |
| ISSN/E-ISSN: | 3048-6513 |
| Volume & Issue: | Volume: 3, Issue: 5 |
| Pages: | 136-145 |
| Original DOI (if any): | 10.5281/zenodo.19690399 |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores the interconnections between climate change, migration and gendered vulnerability in India with the argument that environmental stress has become a structural factor contributing to internal migration. Although the economic factors have always been used to explain migration, climate related disturbances like extreme weather, land degradation and scarcity of resources are gradually defining the patterns of mobility. The paper theorizes the concept of migration as a limited way of adjusting to the environment instead of a choice using qualitative analysis of secondary data and policy frameworks. It illuminates how governance failures, including incoherent welfare regimes, low portability and informal labour make migrants more vulnerable, and gendered inequalities contribute to these effects. The paper introduces migration as a multi-dimensional process that is influenced by structural inequalities and demands more inclusive policy solutions. |
| Keywords: | Migration, Climate adaptation, India, Gendered vulnerability, Migration governance, Climate-induced migration. |
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