Migration, Transformation and Sustainability

这项研究将关于移民的全面见解融入到向可持续发展转型的理论中。在全球范围内，人们对非自愿移徙影响不安全和人权的担忧前所未有。但是，国内和国际移徙对个人和社会都具有巨大的变革潜力。转型理论假设人口是静止的，没有认识到人口流动的积极和消极影响。这一差距限制了对可持续性的解释和干预策略。因此，目标是利用理论和严格的实证研究，通过纳入移徙动态，扩大关于向可持续性转变的知识。具体包括：人员流动总量对可持续性的影响；可持续性的个体生命周期层面；以及移徙和可持续性的治理。这项研究将制定一个全面的移徙可持续发展模式，并在地方、国家和国际范围内对可持续发展战略提出见解。它将建设社会科学的全球能力，以解释和参与向可持续发展转变的移徙问题。来自欧洲、北美、亚洲和非洲的跨学科社会科学领导的联盟建立在持续的方法创新和深入合作的基础上。研究设计涉及全球范围和研究地点的建模、观察和行动研究，代表了各种所谓的移徙过渡。其结果将是共同设计的理论进步和反映现实世界移徙动态的显著和可行的可持续发展战略。

This research integrates comprehensive insights on migration into theories of transformation to sustainability. There is unprecedented concern over involuntary migration globally affecting insecurity and human rights. But both domestic and international migration has enormous transformative potential for individuals and societies. Transformation theories assume static populations and fail to recognize both positive and negative impacts of the movement of people. This gap limits explanations and intervention strategies for sustainability. The objective is therefore to use theory and rigorous empirical research to expand knowledge of transformations to sustainability by incorporating migration dynamics. These specifically include: the impact of aggregate flows of people on sustainability; the individual lifecourse dimensions of sustainability; and the governance of migration and sustainability. The research will develop a comprehensive migration-sustainability model, and develop insights on sustainability strategies at local, national and international scales. It will build global capacity of social science to explain and engage with migration dimensions of transformations to sustainability. The interdisciplinary social-science led consortium from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa builds on on-going methodological innovation and deep collaboration. The research design involves modelling, observations and action research at global scales and in research sites representing the full range of so-called migration transitions. The outcome will be co-designed advances in theory and salient and workable sustainability strategies reflecting real world migration dynamics.