Climate refugees or labour migrants? Climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh

Climate reductive translations of migration attract international attention, but result in three problematic misreadings Bangladesh’s socioecological landscape. First, attributing to climate change misreads coastal vulnerabilities and the importance as a gendered livelihood strategy deal with rural precarity debt- both past present. Second, misreading caused by brackish tiger-prawn cultivation, infrastructure-related waterlogging riverbank erosion ‘climate-induced’ hinders discussion long-term solutions for underemployment, salinisation, siltation land loss. Lastly, framing causing ‘gendered displacement’ ignores affective kinship shaping single women’s choices.