ABSTRACT
Indonesia is marked by historical and contemporary migrations associated with regimes of environmental governance and access to land and livelihood resources. As one of Indonesia's most multicultural medium-sized cities, Bandar Lampung is made through the layering of historical migrations. This chapter outlines the city's migration history, and the implications this has for social geographies of vulnerability. It explores the ways in which historical migration inflects trade-offs between exposure to flooding, access to employment and tenure recognition and the ways in which people are able to command networks of solidarity and support to address flood impacts and associated vulnerabilities. Migration and ethnicity carry particular significance in Lampung, and this has been amplified following the devolution of heavily centralized political and fiscal authority to regional and district levels following the reforms of the late 1990s. The migrants who first settled in and around Bandar Lampung have been displaced by political, economic and environmental shocks and stresses in other parts of the archipelago.
