ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a storyline on how climatic and environmental stresses and shocks as well as perceptions of the risks they pose influence migration decisions of people in Bangladesh. It also explains how a multi-method study of migration decision-making in a climate change hotspot relates to international trends and the climate migration story in general. The chapter constructs the point that though poverty drives migration, the poorest are often unable to move out, in effect possibly getting trapped in environments of potential hazard risk or moving to even riskier places. It combines the findings of the thesis, draws new lessons and identifies some of the uncertainties that it leaves behind in its effort to understand climate- and environment-related migration in Bangladesh. The qualitative analysis narrates mass movements of people from across the country, especially its less developed coastal belt, which is also exposed to climate- and environment-related hazards such as floods and cyclones.
