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The article focuses on migration caused by climate change. It contains the results of a survey conducted in the Shyamnagar Sub-district in Bangladesh among the people of the villages, who are the most vulnerable to climate change. The selected region is under the threat of numerous environmental problems that force people to migrate. The key question is what role climate change plays in this issue. Except in the case of natural disasters, it is only marginal, because economic migration factors normally predominate over environmental ones. The probability of an exodus of climate migrants from Bangladesh is currently negligible.

KEY WORDS: geography, migration, climate change, cyclone, Bangladesh

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The article focuses on migration caused by climate change. It contains the results of a survey conducted in the Shyamnagar Sub-district in Bangladesh among the people of the villages, who are the most vulnerable to climate change. The selected region is under the threat of numerous environmental problems that force people to migrate. The key question is what role climate change plays in this issue. Except in the case of natural disasters, it is only marginal, because economic migration factors normally predominate over environmental ones. The probability of an exodus of climate migrants from Bangladesh is currently negligible.

KEY WORDS: geography, migration, climate change, cyclone, Bangladesh

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Ageing of the population and international migration are perceived by researchers and population experts as crucial to the changes in population composition that have occurred in Europe in the last few decades. Although it is expected that the number of older migrants will continue to rise in the future, until recently, the interactions between ageing and migration have rarely been a focus of research. The article focuses on two main groups of older migrants: older people who migrate and migrants, who have aged in the country they have immigrated into. It presents the main challenges pertaining to the formation and implementation of migration and social policy targeting older migrants and argues against their essensialisation.

KEY WORDS: ageing, migration, older people, retirement migration, return migration

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Ageing of the population and international migration are perceived by researchers and population experts as crucial to the changes in population composition that have occurred in Europe in the last few decades. Although it is expected that the number of older migrants will continue to rise in the future, until recently, the interactions between ageing and migration have rarely been a focus of research. The article focuses on two main groups of older migrants: older people who migrate and migrants, who have aged in the country they have immigrated into. It presents the main challenges pertaining to the formation and implementation of migration and social policy targeting older migrants and argues against their essensialisation.

KEY WORDS: ageing, migration, older people, retirement migration, return migration

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In this turbulent world, different people live highly mobile lives and some seem to be living on the move. On the other hand, there are people known as Gypsies, Travellers, Gens du Voyage or Roma, imag- ined as nomads, although their mobility has been highly controlled or restricted by repressive regimes, nationstates and local communities of Europe throughout history. Following the “mobility turn” or the “new mobilities paradigm” in social studies and based on ethnographic records of travelling Roma who visited Slovenia as “tourists”, I will look at studies of mobilities of Roma. The intention of this paper is first to shed light on the juridical categories of nomad within a certain historical context. Second, within the new mobilities paradigm, and with reference to the immobile platforms that make mobility possible, I will look at the provision of Travellers’ sites that paradoxically make some Travellers less mobile or even sedentarized.

KEY WORDS: Roma, Gypsy Travellers, Gens du Voyage, mobilities, marginality

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In this turbulent world, different people live highly mobile lives and some seem to be living on the move. On the other hand, there are people known as Gypsies, Travellers, Gens du Voyage or Roma, imag- ined as nomads, although their mobility has been highly controlled or restricted by repressive regimes, nationstates and local communities of Europe throughout history. Following the “mobility turn” or the “new mobilities paradigm” in social studies and based on ethnographic records of travelling Roma who visited Slovenia as “tourists”, I will look at studies of mobilities of Roma. The intention of this paper is first to shed light on the juridical categories of nomad within a certain historical context. Second, within the new mobilities paradigm, and with reference to the immobile platforms that make mobility possible, I will look at the provision of Travellers’ sites that paradoxically make some Travellers less mobile or even sedentarized.

KEY WORDS: Roma, Gypsy Travellers, Gens du Voyage, mobilities, marginality

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A large proportion of contemporary Tuareg no longer move in traditional nomadic cycles, but accord- ing to individual choice. Always on the move and in search of making a living, they drift between the Saharan states. Relatives and friends provide lodging; a small bag of personal effects and a mobile phone with beloved modern Tuareg guitar music complete their appearance. Their lifestyle may be characterized by the term “vagabonds”, but I shall argue that these people may also be seen as a certain elite of their society because of their mobility strategies. In my case study of Nigerian Tuareg moving between Niger, Algeria and Libya I respond to the characteristics of their mobility and lifestyle. I shall illustrate their strategies in dealing with the borders of the Saharan nation states, and clarify that “vagabonds” and “elites” are not inevitably mutually exclusive terms, and that moving may not be an exception of normal life, but can be the rule.

KEY WORDS: Tuareg, mobility, transnationality, elites, vagabonds

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A large proportion of contemporary Tuareg no longer move in traditional nomadic cycles, but accord- ing to individual choice. Always on the move and in search of making a living, they drift between the Saharan states. Relatives and friends provide lodging; a small bag of personal effects and a mobile phone with beloved modern Tuareg guitar music complete their appearance. Their lifestyle may be characterized by the term “vagabonds”, but I shall argue that these people may also be seen as a certain elite of their society because of their mobility strategies. In my case study of Nigerian Tuareg moving between Niger, Algeria and Libya I respond to the characteristics of their mobility and lifestyle. I shall illustrate their strategies in dealing with the borders of the Saharan nation states, and clarify that “vagabonds” and “elites” are not inevitably mutually exclusive terms, and that moving may not be an exception of normal life, but can be the rule.

KEY WORDS: Tuareg, mobility, transnationality, elites, vagabonds

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An increasing number of Westerners are leading lifestyles where they repeatedly spend long periods of time in Goa, India. This article discusses the phenomenon in terms of marginal mobility. The main focus is on the problems that the transnationally mobile lifestyle can cause for individuals. The article shows that the mobile lifestyle of the Westerners in Goa involves various vulnerabilities, for example in terms of personal crises, official residence status, visas and children’s education. The article is based on extensive ethnographic research.

KEYWORDS: marginal mobility, sedentary norms, India

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An increasing number of Westerners are leading lifestyles where they repeatedly spend long periods of time in Goa, India. This article discusses the phenomenon in terms of marginal mobility. The main focus is on the problems that the transnationally mobile lifestyle can cause for individuals. The article shows that the mobile lifestyle of the Westerners in Goa involves various vulnerabilities, for example in terms of personal crises, official residence status, visas and children’s education. The article is based on extensive ethnographic research.

KEYWORDS: marginal mobility, sedentary norms, India