Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

Rebecca Elmhirst; Ari Darmastuti

Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

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This chapter, based on research funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, shows how social geographies produced by historical migrations to the city of Bandar Lampung in Indonesia contribute to vulnerability to flooding, and responses to flood events. In particular, migrant ethnic networks shape not onlyu the contours of precarious everyday livelihoods, but also the political capital people are able to actualize at very localised scales to attract assistance of various kinds. The chapter argues that policy makers need a nuanced appreciateion of the subtle ways past migrations remain significant in shaping vulnerability and defining access to resources - a step that is necessary for ensuring a just approach to flood responses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia: a political ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change
Editors	Carl Middleton, Rebecca Elmhirst, Supang Chantavanich
Place of Publication	London, UK
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	146-166
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315761435
ISBN (Print)	9781138793248
Publication status	Published - 2 Nov 2017

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Name	Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia: a political ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change on 02/11/2017, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Living-with-Floods-in-a-Mobile-Southeast-Asia-A-Political-Ecology-of-Vulnerability/Middleton-Elmhirst-Chantavanich/p/book/9781138793248

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Rebecca Elmhirst
- R.J.Elmhirstbrighton.acuk
- School of Applied Sciences - Professor of Human Geography
- Centre for Aquatic Environments
- Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics
- People, Natures and Places Research and Enterprise Group
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Elmhirst, R., & Darmastuti, A. (2017). Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. In C. Middleton, R. Elmhirst, & S. Chantavanich (Eds.), Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia: a political ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change (pp. 146-166). (Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Living-with-Floods-in-a-Mobile-Southeast-Asia-A-Political-Ecology-of-Vulnerability/Middleton-Elmhirst-Chantavanich/p/book/9781138793248

Elmhirst, Rebecca ; Darmastuti, Ari. / Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia: a political ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change. editor / Carl Middleton ; Rebecca Elmhirst ; Supang Chantavanich. London, UK : Routledge, 2017. pp. 146-166 (Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration).

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Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. / Elmhirst, Rebecca; Darmastuti, Ari.
Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia: a political ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change. ed. / Carl Middleton; Rebecca Elmhirst; Supang Chantavanich. London, UK: Routledge, 2017. p. 146-166 (Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration).

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Elmhirst R, Darmastuti A. Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia. In Middleton C, Elmhirst R, Chantavanich S, editors, Living with floods in a mobile Southeast Asia: a political ecology of vulnerability, migration and environmental change. London, UK: Routledge. 2017. p. 146-166. (Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration).

Flooding in a city of migrants: ethnicity and entitlement in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia

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