A chapter on “Gender, migration and environmental change in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta“, by Katharine Vincent, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Attila Lazar and Anwara Begum, is part of a newly-published book “Engendering Climate Change: Learning from South Asia“.

Patterns of who migrates, where and for how long are strongly gendered. Against this backdrop, environmental change is altering the context in which migration takes place. The chapter outlines some of the theory on migration and gender, on how environmental change affects migration, and the gendered effects of environmental migration. It illustrates arguments using primary data from a sex-disaggregated survey of 1356 households in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, from which it is concluded that migration flows and consequences exhibit gender differences and that environmental change plays an integral role. The chapter concludes with some insights into future environmental change and its potential effects on migration patterns in Bangladesh.