Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak
Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5
1010 Wien
Tel.: +43-1-4277-48730
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
Peth SA, Sakdapolrak P. When the origin becomes the destination: Lost remittances and social resilience of return labour migrants in Thailand. Area. 2020 Sep;52(3):547-557. Epub 2019 Nov 13. doi: 10.1111/area.12598
Peth SA, Sakdapolrak P. Resilient family meshwork. Thai–German migrations, translocal ties, and their impact on social resilience. Geoforum. 2020 Aug;114:19-29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.019
Groth J, Ide T, Sakdapolrak P, Kassa E, Hermans K. Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration – A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands. Global Environmental Change. 2020 Jul;63:102094. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102094
Porst L, Sakdapolrak P. Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand. Population, Space and Place. 2020 May;26(4):e2314. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2314
Ober K, Sakdapolrak P. Whose climate change adaptation ‘barriers’? Exploring the coloniality of climate change adaptation policy assemblages in Thailand and beyond. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 2020 Jan;41(1):86-104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12309
Stange G (Editorial Journalist), Sterly H (Editorial Journalist), Sakdapolrak P (Editorial Journalist), Borderon M (Editorial Journalist), Schraven B (Editorial Journalist), Serraglio DA (Author) et al.. Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for translocal strategies of environmental risk management 2020.
Sterly H, Sakdapolrak P. Multiple Dimensions of Mediatised Translocal Social Practices. A Cast Study of Domestic Migrants in Bangladesh. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. 2020;162:369-395. doi: 10.1553/moegg162s369
Stange G, Sakdapolrak P, Sasiwongsaroj K, Kourek M. Forced Migration in Southeast Asia: A Brief Overview of Current Research. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. 2019 Dec 26;12(2):249 - 265. doi: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0024
Rockenbauch T, Sakdapolrak P, Sterly H. Beyond the local – Exploring the socio-spatial patterns of translocal network capital and its role in household resilience in Northeast Thailand. Geoforum. 2019 Dec;107:154-167. Epub 2019 Oct 28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.09.009
Boas I, Farbotko C, Adams H, Sterly H, Bush S, Van der Geest K et al. Climate migration myths. Nature Climate Change. 2019 Dec;9(12):901-903. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0633-3
Borderon M, Sakdapolrak P, Muttarak R, Kebede EB, Pagogna R, Sporer E. Migration influenced by environmental change in Africa: A systematic review of empirical evidence. Demographic Research. 2019 Aug 15;41:491-544. 18. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.18
Rockenbauch T, Sakdapolrak P, Sterly H. 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. 2019 Apr 10;36:685-702. doi: 10.1007/s10460-019-09935-0
Sakdapolrak P. Migration im Kontext des Klimawandels – Indikator für Verwundbarkeit oder Resilienz? 2019.
Sterly H, Etzold B, Wirkus L, Sakdapolrak P, Schewe J, Schleussner C-F et al. AROMACoDa: Assessing Refugees' Onward Mobility through the Analysis of Communication Data. In Salah AA, Pentland A, Lepri B, Letouzé E, de Montjoye Y-A, Dong X, Vinck P, editors, Your Voice, Your Data, Your Future. 2019. p. 70-82
Sterly H, Etzold B, Wirkus L, Sakdapolrak P, Schewe J, Schleussner C-F et al. Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility with Mobile Phone Data—A Case Study of (Syrian) Refugees in Turkey. In Salah AA, Pentland A, Lepri B, Letouzé E, editors, Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study. Springer. 2019. p. 251-263 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_13
Stange G, Sakdapolrak P. Forced Migration in Southeast Asia. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. 2018 Dec 29;11(2):161-164. doi: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0004
Porst L, Sakdapolrak P. Advancing adaptation or producing precarity? The role of rural-urban migration and translocal embeddedness in navigating household resilience in Thailand. Geoforum. 2018 Dec;97:35-45. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.011
Bunchuay-Peth SA, Sterly H, Sakdapolrak P. Between the village and the global city: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore. Mobilities. 2018 Jul 4;13(4):455-472. doi: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1449785, 10.1080/17450101.2018.1449785
Borderon M, Sakdapolrak P, Muttarak R, Kebede E, Pagogna R, Sporer E. A systematic review of empirical evidence on migration influenced by environmental change in Africa. 2018.
Fünfgeld H, Sterly H, Sakdapolrak P, Bunchuay-Peth SA, Naruchaikusol S, Ober K et al. Migration for Adaptation. A Guidebook for Integrating Migration and Translocality into Community-Based Adaptation. 2018.