Power of partnership conference: Poster: Safe and sustainable cities: Human security, migration and wellbeing

1. Safe and sustainable cities: human security, migration and wellbeing
PI W. Neil Adger (University of Exeter) Co-I Tasneem Siddiqui (University of Dhaka - RMMRU) Co-I Ricardo Safra de Campos (University of Exeter) Researcher: Lucy Faulkner
(University of Exeter) Researcher: Mohammed Rashed Bhuiyan (University of Dhaka - RMMRU) Researcher: Lucy Szaboova (University of Exeter) Researcher: Mahmudol Hasan
Rocky (RMMRU) Researcher: Tamim Billah (RMMRU)
Project rationale
Research design and methods
Study location
Findings
Planned outcomes
Survey
450 migrants
Completed May 2018
Migrant perceptions of
human security and
wellbeing and risks
Photovoice
Completed Oct 2018
10 migrants 7 planners
Preparatory FGs
Perspective-taking activities:
building empathy
November 2018
Two policy oriented
workshops
January and March 2019
Human security
• Place attachment
• Fear violence/crime
• Material and perceived
wellbeing
• Mental health status
Social contexts
• Social capital
• Length residence
• Environmental risks
• Political integration
Objectives
• Examine the challenges of rapid migration to urban settlements in terms of the
sustainability, security, integration and wellbeing of new populations.
• Employ this new knowledge to generate insights on how migrant populations can be
empowered into urban planning processes in Chittagong.
• Help create an environment to build empathy between
Chittagong planners and migrants to support the
prioritization of policies and strategies that help
integrate new migrant populations in Chittagong
• Platform for co-designed policy lessons for urban
planning and security, for urban-rural policy linkages,
and for poverty-alleviating interventions
• Perceived improvement of economic situation
compared to place of origin
• Elements of security (housing, employment and health)
impact on migrants’ multidimensional wellbeing
• Identity is key element of migrants visual
representations and perceptions of sources of and risks
to wellbeing and security