Turning a threat of climate migration into an opportunity for development? The gendered logics of the Asian Development Bank’s climate migration discourses

Sammanfattning: Climate migration is an emerging topic of research and policymaking in the region of Asia and the Pacific. Migration in the context of climate change is mediated by social, political, and historical factors not solely dependent on the impacts of climate change. Also, migration, including climate migration, is a socially unequal process and has differential impacts on people based on their identity markers such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, and age. Meanwhile, various international organizations (IOs) such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) engage in developing policy prescriptions on climate migration. Drawing on feminist poststructuralist theory and the gendered Logics approach, this research uncovers how ADB shapes discourses on climate migration that exacerbate the gendered structures of the global economy, such as paternalistic management, marketable subjects, and masculine and technical solutions. Suggestions for future research point to more nuanced understandings of the region's mobility practices in the context of climate change, moving away from the managerial approaches of policy interventions to further dialogues on the underlying causes of unequal burdens of climate change.