We're off on a great new segment starting with Episode 15! Migration is the third component of population growth and while it doesn't add people to the planet, migration patterns can significantly impact the places where it grows population as well as the places where migration shrinks population. It's a fascinating subject and we'll be doing a very deep dive into the many facets and impacts of people on the move!
In this episode, Jane goes over Place, Population and Politics, her poster which she presented at the 2018 American Psychological Association International Conference.
The Concept: Political rhetoric combined with continued news of refugees fleeing war, poverty and the impacts of climate change, continually bombards citizens in all nations, leaving no room for a more thorough examination of the links between traumatic psychological impacts experienced by migrants and the less traumatic, but equally important psychological impacts of changes to place. Neither do we spend time examining how political identification influences how we experience changes to the environment that has formed our own sense of place.
In this non-empirical study: (a) the importance of sense of place in developing our personal and social identities is defined, (b) two over-arching migration motivators – choice and force – are compared, and (c) attachment to place as an influencer of political response to place change due to migration is investigated.
The relationships between these subjects are explored in order to better understand how linking place, human psychological identity, human migration and political response can open doors to how we understand ourselves and each other in changing socio-physical environments.
