The Senegal Migration Panel: Understanding Mobility in a Climate-Stressed Population
In an interdisciplinary team of economists, sociologist, and political
scientist, the project plans to analyzes the influence of climate
change on attitudes towards migration and actual migration decisions using the
example of Senegal. Via comprehensive surveys of individuals and households in
150 Senegalese villages, different factors influencing migration decisions will
be analyzed: the relevance of extreme weather events, the role of local
networks and their narratives about climate change, economic pressures as well
as a change in the demand for skills by the labor market due to climate change.
Publications
Project start:
01. January 2023
Project end:
31. December 2025
Project staff:
Dr. Cara Ebert,
Dr. Maximiliane Sievert,
Prof. Dr. Jörg Ankel-Peters,
Bernd Beber PhD,
Prof. Dr. Kati Krähnert,
Ashwini Dabadge, Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Bauer,
Nils Haveresch
Project partners:
Institut für Weltwirtschaft,
Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK),
Universität Potsdam
Funding:
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft