IMBRACE
Embracing Immigrant Knowledges for Just Climate Health Adaptation
A research project funded by the European Research Council that analyzes the nexus between climate change, health, and immigration.
Climate change, human health and migration are arguably the most challenging issues of our times, with important implications for justice. Studies on the nexus of these issues have largely focused on climate change as a push-factor for migration, rather than on understanding how and why climate is impacting the health of migrants in places of migration destination, or on migrants as actors and knowledge holders on climate adaptation.
The IMBRACE research project examines what shapes immigrants’ climate health vulnerability and how their situated knowledges and practices can inform both their own response capacities and urban climate adaptation more broadly, towards more effective and just approaches.
Climate Change Adaptation & Climate Urbanism
Immigrant Knowledges and Communities
Social Determinants of Health & Climate Vulnerability
Climate impacts we look at
Increased and prolonged heat
Intense rainfall and flooding
Methodologies we use
Photovoice
Urban Climate Relief Maps
Body Maps
Postcards from the future
Walk Alongs
In-depth interviews
Co-creation workshops
6
Cities
18+
Migrant communities
7
Methodologies
"Heat gentrification is a subset of climate gentrification, involving the sociophysical displacement of marginalized residents due to climate effects, and responses related to heat that make some (cooler) homes and neighborhoods pricier and less affordable."
From heat racism and heat gentrification to urban heat justice in the USA and Europe
Nature Cities | Volume 2 | January 2025 | 8–16
