Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences
Abstract Today there is a disjuncture between migration flows that are complex, mixed and constantly evolving and the emerging global migration governance paradigm that seeks to impose clarity, certainty, regularity and order. Addressing the gap between policies and realities, this article explores...
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| description | Abstract Today there is a disjuncture between migration flows that are complex, mixed and constantly evolving and the emerging global migration governance paradigm that seeks to impose clarity, certainty, regularity and order. Addressing the gap between policies and realities, this article explores lessons for migration policy and governance from mobile pastoralists’ experience. Using examples from human migration flows within and between Europe and Africa and insights from pastoral systems from India, Italy and Kenya, the article identifies important similarities between international migration and pastoral mobility. We focus on four interconnections: both international migration and pastoral mobility show multi-directional and fragmented patterns; both involve multiple, intersecting socio-economic, political, cultural and environmental drivers; both must respond to non-linear systems, where critical junctures and tipping points undermine clear prediction and forecasts, making social navigation and reliability management more useful concepts than risk-based prediction and control and finally for both uncertainty is not conceived of as a state of crisis but an inherent feature, pregnant with possibility and hope. Building on these four points, and drawing from pastoralists’ experiences, we propose some methodological, practical and policy reflections for bridging the disjuncture between migration realities on the ground and global migration governance policies and discourses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d7d5cfd7505b40fcafd3c14320b972812022-12-21T19:44:10ZengSpringerOpenComparative Migration Studies2214-594X2022-01-0110111810.1186/s40878-022-00277-1Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiencesNatasha Maru0Michele Nori1Ian Scoones2Greta Semplici3Anna Triandafyllidou4Institute of Development Studies (IDS), PASTRES Programme, University of SussexPASTRES Programme, European University InstituteInstitute of Development Studies (IDS), PASTRES Programme, University of SussexPASTRES Programme, European University InstituteFaculty of Arts, Department of Sociology, Ryerson UniversityAbstract Today there is a disjuncture between migration flows that are complex, mixed and constantly evolving and the emerging global migration governance paradigm that seeks to impose clarity, certainty, regularity and order. Addressing the gap between policies and realities, this article explores lessons for migration policy and governance from mobile pastoralists’ experience. Using examples from human migration flows within and between Europe and Africa and insights from pastoral systems from India, Italy and Kenya, the article identifies important similarities between international migration and pastoral mobility. We focus on four interconnections: both international migration and pastoral mobility show multi-directional and fragmented patterns; both involve multiple, intersecting socio-economic, political, cultural and environmental drivers; both must respond to non-linear systems, where critical junctures and tipping points undermine clear prediction and forecasts, making social navigation and reliability management more useful concepts than risk-based prediction and control and finally for both uncertainty is not conceived of as a state of crisis but an inherent feature, pregnant with possibility and hope. Building on these four points, and drawing from pastoralists’ experiences, we propose some methodological, practical and policy reflections for bridging the disjuncture between migration realities on the ground and global migration governance policies and discourses.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00277-1UncertaintyPastoralismReliability professionalsInternational migrationGlobal compact |
| spellingShingle | Natasha Maru Michele Nori Ian Scoones Greta Semplici Anna Triandafyllidou Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences Comparative Migration Studies Uncertainty Pastoralism Reliability professionals International migration Global compact |
| title | Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences |
| title_full | Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences |
| title_fullStr | Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences |
| title_short | Embracing uncertainty: rethinking migration policy through pastoralists’ experiences |
| title_sort | embracing uncertainty rethinking migration policy through pastoralists experiences |
| topic | Uncertainty Pastoralism Reliability professionals International migration Global compact |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00277-1 |
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