Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak
Research Group Leader
Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5
1010 Vienna, Austria
Hours: Wednesday, 12:00 to 13:00 – please register under population.geographie@univie.ac.at (not during the semester breaks)
Tel.: +43-1-4277-48730
E-Mail: patrick.sakdapolrak@univie.ac.at
Biography
My research field is at the interface of population dynamics, environmental change and development processes, with a focus on the topics of migration and displacement as well as health and disease. The central theme of my research is the question of how vulnerable groups live with risk. My Ph.D. thesis is based on field research in slum settlements in India, where the inhabitants have significant higher mortality and morbidity rates than the rest of the urban population. I have investigated how these poor urban groups cope with and adapt to environmental and social stresses. My current research on migration-environment relationships in Kenya and Thailand addresses the question how migration alters the way people at places of origin deal with the environment and climate change. I have the aim to pursue sound theoretical and empirical research which is relevant for wider society. I have studied Geography and Development Research in Heidelberg and Wollongong, Australia, and received my doctorate degree at Bonn University.
Research interests
Conceptual: vulnerability, resilience, livelihoods, translocality, Bourdieu's Practice-Theory
Thematic: human-environment-relations, migration and displacement, health and disease
Regional: South Asia (India), South-East Asia (Thailand), East Africa (Kenia)
Publications
Sakdapolrak, P., Stange, G., & Sterly, H. (2021). Bevölkerungsdynamiken im Kontext des globalen Umweltwandels. In B. Braun, I. Helbrecht, R. Schneider-Sliwa, & R. Wehrhahn (Eds.), Humangeographie Westermann. Compass: das geographische Seminar
Durand-Delacre, D., Bettini, G., Nash, S. L., Sterly, H., Gioli, G., Hut, E., Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Sakdapolrak, P., de Bruijn, M., Furlong, B. T., van der Geest, K., Lietaer, S., & Hulme, M. (2021). Climate Migration is About People, not Numbers. In S. Böhm, & S. Sullivan (Eds.), Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (pp. 63-81). Open Book Publishers. books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0265.06.pdf
Pagogna, R., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2021). Disciplining migration aspirations through migration‐information campaigns: A systematic review of the literature. Geography Compass. doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12585
Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2020). Building Climate Resilience through Migration in Thailand. Migration Information Source, Special Issue. www.migrationpolicy.org/article/building-climate-resilience-through-migration-thailand
Peth, S. A., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). When the origin becomes the destination: Lost remittances and social resilience of return labour migrants in Thailand. Area, 52(3), 547-557. doi.org/10.1111/area.12598
Porst, L., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 26(4), [e2314]. doi.org/10.1002/psp.2314
Groth, J., Ide, T., Sakdapolrak, P., Kassa, E., & Hermans, K. (2020). Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration – A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands. Global Environmental Change, 63, [102094]. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102094
Stange, G. (Editorial Journalist), Sterly, H. (Editorial Journalist), Sakdapolrak, P. (Editorial Journalist), Borderon, M. (Editorial Journalist), Schraven, B. (Editorial Journalist), Serraglio, D. A. (Author), & Aleksandrova, M. (Author). (2020). Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for translocal strategies of environmental risk management. Web publication environmentalmigration.iom.int/blogs/impeded-migration-adaptation-covid-19-and-its-implications-translocal-strategies-environmental
Sterly, H., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Multiple Dimensions of Mediatised Translocal Social Practices. A Cast Study of Domestic Migrants in Bangladesh. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 162, 369-395. doi.org/10.1553/moegg162s369
Peth, S. A., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Resilient family meshwork. Thai–German migrations, translocal ties, and their impact on social resilience. Geoforum, 114, 19-29. doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.019
Stange, G., Sakdapolrak, P., Sasiwongsaroj, K., & Kourek, M. (2019). Forced Migration in Southeast Asia: A Brief Overview of Current Research. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12(2), 249 - 265. doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0024
Ober, K., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2019). Whose climate change adaptation ‘barriers’? Exploring the coloniality of climate change adaptation policy assemblages in Thailand and beyond. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 41(1), 86-104. doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12309
Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Adams, H., Sterly, H., Bush, S., Van der Geest, K., Wiegel, H., Ashraf, H., Baldwin, A., Bettini, G., Blondin, S., de Bruijn, M., Durand-Delacre, D., Fröhlich, C., Gioli, G., Guaita, L., Hut, E., Jarawura, F. X., Lamers, M., ... Hulme, M. (2019). Climate migration myths. Nature Climate Change, 9(12), 901-903. doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0633-3
Borderon, M., Sakdapolrak, P., Muttarak, R., Kebede, E. B., Pagogna, R., & Sporer, E. (2019). Migration influenced by environmental change in Africa: A systematic review of empirical evidence. Demographic Research, 41, 491-544. [18]. doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.18
Sakdapolrak, P. (2019, Jan 21). Migration im Kontext des Klimawandels – Indikator für Verwundbarkeit oder Resilienz?
Sterly, H., Etzold, B., Wirkus, L., Sakdapolrak, P., Schewe, J., Schleussner, C-F., & Hennig, B. (2019). AROMA_CoDa: Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility through the Analysis of Communication Data. Paper presented at Data for Refugees Challange, Istanbul, Turkey.
Sterly, H., Etzold, B., Wirkus, L., Sakdapolrak, P., Schewe, J., Schleussner, C-F., & Hennig, B. (2019). AROMACoDa: Assessing Refugees' Onward Mobility through the Analysis of Communication Data. In A. A. Salah, A. Pentland, B. Lepri, E. Letouzé, Y-A. de Montjoye, X. Dong, & P. Vinck (Eds.), Your Voice, Your Data, Your Future (pp. 70-82) www.researchgate.net/publication/330999866_AROMA_CoDa_Assessing_Refugees'_Onward_Mobility_through_the_Analysis_of_Communication_Data
Sterly, H., Etzold, B., Wirkus, L., Sakdapolrak, P., Schewe, J., Schleussner, C-F., & Hennig, B. (2019). Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility with Mobile Phone Data—A Case Study of (Syrian) Refugees in Turkey. In A. A. Salah, A. Pentland, B. Lepri, & E. Letouzé (Eds.), Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study (pp. 251-263). Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_13
Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2019). Beyond the local – Exploring the socio-spatial patterns of translocal network capital and its role in household resilience in Northeast Thailand. Geoforum, 107(December 2019), 154-167.