Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak

Head of the Working Group

Professor of Population Geography and Demography
Vice-Director of Doctoral Studies (SPL 45)

Contact

Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5, D518
1010 Vienna, Austria

Tel.: +43-1-4277-48730

Email: patrick.sakdapolrak@univie.ac.at


Hours: Tuesday, 13:15 to 14:15 (MS Teams)

Please register by Monday (10 h) at the latest. You will then receive an access link.

03.12.2024 | 10.12.2024 | 17.12.2024

Teaching

Course directory

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)

Current research Projects

  • HABITABLE – Linking Climate Change, Habitability and Social Tipping Points: Scenarios for Climate Migration

Publications

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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. https://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, 15(7), Article 12585. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12585
Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2020). Building Climate Resilience through Migration in Thailand. Migration Information Source, Special Issue. https://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. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12598
Peth, S. A., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Resilient family meshwork. Thai–German migrations, translocal ties, and their impact on social resilience. Geoforum, 114, 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.019
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, Article 102094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102094
Porst, L., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 26(4), Article e2314. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2314
Ober, K., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12309
Stange, G., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Borderon, M., Schraven, B., Serraglio, D. A., & Aleksandrova, M. (2020). Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for translocal strategies of environmental risk management. Web publication https://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. https://doi.org/10.1553/moegg162s369
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. https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0024
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, 154-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.09.009
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. https://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. Article 18. https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.18
Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2019). Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small‑scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand. Agriculture and Human Values, 36, 685-702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09935-0
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). 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) https://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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_13
Stange, G., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2018). Forced Migration in Southeast Asia. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 11(2), 161-164. https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0004
Porst, L., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2018). Advancing adaptation or producing precarity? The role of rural-urban migration and translocal embeddedness in navigating household resilience in Thailand. Geoforum, 97, 35-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.011
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