Recent publications of the Research group


Pagogna R, Sakdapolrak P. How migration information campaigns shape local perceptions and discourses of migration in Harar city, Ethiopia. International Migration. 2023 Oct;61(5):142-155. Epub 2023 Jan 10. doi: 10.1111/imig.13112

Lemke LKG, Sakdapolrak P, Trippl M. Unresolved issues in regional economic resilience: Conceptual ways forward. Progress in Human Geography. 2023 Oct;47(5):699-717. Epub 2023. doi: 10.1177/03091325231191242

Weldemariam LF, Sakdapolrak P, Ayanlade A. Household food-security strategies and migration in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: food-security strategies and migration. Scientific African. 2023 Sept;21:e01801. doi: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01801

Weldemariam LF, Ayanlade A, Borderon M, Möslinger K. Dynamics and factors influencing return migration to Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. Heliyon. 2023 Jul 30;9(8):E18791. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18791

Stange G, Pagogna R, Sterly H, Sakdapolrak P, Borderon M, Schraven B et al. Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. 2023 Jun 28;16(1):157-169. doi: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0093

Szaboova L, Adger WN, Safra de Campos R, Maharjan A, Sakdapolrak P, Sterly H et al. Evaluating migration as successful adaptation to climate change: Trade-offs in well-being, equity, and sustainability. One Earth. 2023 Jun 16;6(6):620-631. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.05.009

Ayanlade A, Smucker T, Nyasimi M, Sterly H, Weldemariam LF, Simpson NP. Complex Climate Change Risk and Emerging Directions for Vulnerability Research in Africa. Climate Risk Management. 2023 Mar 15;40:100497. doi: 10.1016/j.crm.2023.100497

Groth J, Seppelt R, Sakdapolrak P, Senbeta F, Hermans K. Why smallholders stop engaging in forest activities: the role of in-migration in livelihood transitions in forested landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia. Ecology and Society. 2023 Mar;28(1):52. doi: 10.5751/ES-14022-280152


Paredes Grijalva D, Riegler N, Illes A, Bumann N, Torres Heredia JM. Doctor it! Episode 8: Decolonising Academia Vienna Doctoral School for Social Sciences. 2023.

Merschroth S, Sterly H, Sakdapolrak P, Abu M, Janoth JN. Subjectivity and Social Positions Shape Habitability in the Context of Environmental Change: a Qualitative Case Study in Northern Ghana. Die Erde: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin - Forum für Erdsystem- und Erdraumforschung. 2023;154(4):123-144. doi: 10.12854/erde-2023-655

Ayanlade A, Sergi CM, Sakdapolrak P, Ayanlade OS, Carlo PD, Babatimehin OI et al. Climate change engenders a better Early Warning System development across Sub-Saharan Africa: The malaria case. Resources, Environment and Sustainability. 2022 Dec 31;10:100080. doi: 10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100080

Sasiwongsaroj K, Husa K. Getting Old and Getting Care: Thailand as Hot Spot of International Retirement Migration. In Sasiwongsaroj K, Husa K, Wohlschlägl H, editors, Migration, Ageing, Aged Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Asia: Case Studies from Thailand and Japan. Vol. 24. Wien: Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. 2022. p. 53-84. (Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung, Vol. 24).

Sasiwongsaroj K, Husa K, Wohlschlägl H. Graying Southeast Asia – Demographic aging between success story and multilevel challenge. In Sasiwongsaroj K, Husa K, Wohlschlägl H, editors, Migration, Ageing, Aged Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Asia: Case Studies from Thailand and Japan. Wien: Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. 2022. p. 11-51. (Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung, Vol. 24).

Sasiwongsaroj K, Husa K, Wohlschlägl H. Migration, Ageing, Aged Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Asia: Case Studies from Thailand and Japan. Wien: Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, 2022. 304 p. (Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung, Vol. 24).

Butratana K, Trupp A, Husa K. Intersections of Tourism, Cross-border Marriage, and Retirement Migration in Thailand. In Bloch N, Adams K, editors, Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile. 1 ed. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2022