Loubna Ou‐salah
Biographic Data
| ID | 935212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loubna Ou‐salah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loubna |
| FAMILY NAME | Ou‐salah |
| SIGNATURE | SALAH L O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0429-3755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘No one to help us when the rains don’t come’: Gendered climate resilience strategies of female informal dairy and herb traders in Ain Lahcen, Morocco
Rural Morocco is increasingly affected by climate variability, including rising temperatures, irregular rainfall, and frequent droughts, which threaten agricultural livelihoods and food security. These environmental stresses interact with existing social inequalities, such as limited access to land and employment for women and rigid gender norms, making households, especially women, more vulnerable. Drawing on two focus group discussions, this re…
“The weather feels familiar”: Moroccan migrants in Tenerife on how environmental change reshapes dual place attachments
Climate change not only affects the environments we live in but also shapes how we are attached to them. These place attachments are the emotional bonds individuals form with specific places, encompassing affective, behavioral, and cognitive connections. Migrants and other mobile communities maintain dual attachments to both their countries of origin and their new environments. This study focuses on Moroccan migrants living in Tenerife, Canary Is…
The Role of Glocal Celebrities and Diaspora Organizations in Environmental Change in Tenerife and Morocco
Recently, growing attention has been paid to the importance of intangible remittances for climate adaptation, including the exchange of knowledge, cultural practices, and normative frameworks within transnational networks. Most studies assume these concerns mainly involve knowledge exchange, but less is known about how such exchanges are embedded in normative structures. This latter concept is crucial to understand how remittances reflect and eve…
We always ask about the weather”: Using visual mapping to understand how transnational migrant networks share beliefs and values on environmental change
The objective of this study is to investigate how transnational and translocal migrant networks contribute to knowledge acquisition, resource sharing, and collaborations related to environmental change adaptation. By using a combination of qualitative interviews and novel visual mapping techniques, this study seeks to understand how and by whom remittances are shared, including digital mobilities (e.g., social media and other forms of digital com…
Gendered dynamics in Moroccan transnational migrant networks in Tenerife: Environmental concerns, engagement, and remittances
The concept of transnational knowledge networks has entered the field of study of environmental mobility. Yet, how these networks play a role in adaptation to environmental change remains understudied. Power dynamics and familial ties impact the functioning of transnational networks and intricately shape responses to environmental challenges, with gender serving as a salient factor. This research aims to theorize and empirically study how gender …
Methodological reflections on visually mapping intangible remittances amidst environmental change
Emerging debates underscore the importance of advancing intangible remittances (IRs) research, particularly given the challenges of capturing nuanced exchanges within transnational migrant networks. This paper introduces visual mapping techniques as a new methodological tool for studying IRs in the context of environmental change to demonstrate how visual mapping can enable the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and practices within migrant networks. …
Household Gender Roles and Slow-Onset Environmental Change in Morocco: A Barrier or Driver to Develop Migration Aspirations
We study how slow-onset environmental changes impact the adaptive capacity of rural women living in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco. Given the immobility of many women in rural regions, we especially focus upon the internal migration aspirations of rural woman. In this way our study aims to shed light on the interrelationships between environmental change, gender relations and social and migration aspirations in a gradually environmentally degr…
Feminisation of agriculture and the role of environmental changes: It's already a tough job and it's getting tougher due to weather changes
In the present study, we aim to examine how slow-onset environmental changes are intertwined with the feminisation of agriculture and how these environmental changes impact gender relations in the rural Souss-Massa region-a predominantly agricultural region in Morocco. We do so by firstly studying the perspectives of rural inhabitants on broader household, kinship, land ownership and community-based gender relations in rural regions in the Souss-…
Rain has to do with God's will: Religion and perceptions of environmental change in a Muslim community in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco
In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to environmental mobility in Morocco by policy-makers, non-governmental organisations, academics, and Islamic leaders. However, most empirical research on risk perceptions and religious views has relied on findings from Western and Christian communities, while data from Muslim communities or within communities strongly adherent to Islam are relatively rare. Nonetheless, Muslim communities are,…
You Can't Even Predict the Rain Anymore”: A Case Study on the Importance of Environmental Factors in the Migration Biographies of Moroccan Immigrants in Belgium
In the current study, we depart from migration biographies of first-generation Moroccan migrants living in Belgium to understand how environmental factors interfere in migration decision making and how its importance varies over life stages. Most Moroccan migrants came to Belgium as labor migrants or family “reunifers,” so little research has inquired whether and how environmental changes have played a role in making migration more appealing, at …
The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium
This manuscript describes findings from 53 interviews conducted with Moroccan and migrants from The Democratic Republique of the Congo living in Belgium, with an emphasis on discussing the extent to which environmental factors in the migrants’ home countries may or may not have influenced their migration decisions. A comparative approach clarifies and disentangles the relationship between natural environmental factors and other drivers of migrati…
Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes
This open access book studies the migration aspirations and trajectories of people living in two regions in Morocco (Tangier and Tinghir) that are highly affected by environmental change or emigration and the migration trajectories of immigrants from these regions currently living in Belgium
The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium
This manuscript describes findings from 53 interviews conducted with Moroccan and migrants from The Democratic Republique of the Congo living in Belgium, with an emphasis on discussing the extent to which environmental factors in the migrants’ home countries may or may not have influenced their migration decisions. A comparative approach clarifies and disentangles the relationship between natural environmental factors and other drivers of migrati…
Feminisation of agriculture and the role of environmental changes: It's already a tough job and it's getting tougher due to weather changes
In the present study, we aim to examine how slow-onset environmental changes are intertwined with the feminisation of agriculture and how these environmental changes impact gender relations in the rural Souss-Massa region-a predominantly agricultural region in Morocco. We do so by firstly studying the perspectives of rural inhabitants on broader household, kinship, land ownership and community-based gender relations in rural regions in the Souss-…
Gendered dynamics in Moroccan transnational migrant networks in Tenerife: Environmental concerns, engagement, and remittances
The concept of transnational knowledge networks has entered the field of study of environmental mobility. Yet, how these networks play a role in adaptation to environmental change remains understudied. Power dynamics and familial ties impact the functioning of transnational networks and intricately shape responses to environmental challenges, with gender serving as a salient factor. This research aims to theorize and empirically study how gender …
Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes
This open access book studies the migration aspirations and trajectories of people living in two regions in Morocco (Tangier and Tinghir) that are highly affected by environmental change or emigration and the migration trajectories of immigrants from these regions currently living in Belgium
The role of environmental factors and other migration drivers from the perspective of Moroccan and Congolese migrants in Belgium
This manuscript describes findings from 53 interviews conducted with Moroccan and migrants from The Democratic Republique of the Congo living in Belgium, with an emphasis on discussing the extent to which environmental factors in the migrants’ home countries may or may not have influenced their migration decisions. A comparative approach clarifies and disentangles the relationship between natural environmental factors and other drivers of migrati…
You Can't Even Predict the Rain Anymore”: A Case Study on the Importance of Environmental Factors in the Migration Biographies of Moroccan Immigrants in Belgium
In the current study, we depart from migration biographies of first-generation Moroccan migrants living in Belgium to understand how environmental factors interfere in migration decision making and how its importance varies over life stages. Most Moroccan migrants came to Belgium as labor migrants or family “reunifers,” so little research has inquired whether and how environmental changes have played a role in making migration more appealing, at …
Household Gender Roles and Slow-Onset Environmental Change in Morocco: A Barrier or Driver to Develop Migration Aspirations
We study how slow-onset environmental changes impact the adaptive capacity of rural women living in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco. Given the immobility of many women in rural regions, we especially focus upon the internal migration aspirations of rural woman. In this way our study aims to shed light on the interrelationships between environmental change, gender relations and social and migration aspirations in a gradually environmentally degr…
Feminisation of agriculture and the role of environmental changes: It's already a tough job and it's getting tougher due to weather changes
In the present study, we aim to examine how slow-onset environmental changes are intertwined with the feminisation of agriculture and how these environmental changes impact gender relations in the rural Souss-Massa region-a predominantly agricultural region in Morocco. We do so by firstly studying the perspectives of rural inhabitants on broader household, kinship, land ownership and community-based gender relations in rural regions in the Souss-…
Rain has to do with God's will: Religion and perceptions of environmental change in a Muslim community in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco
In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to environmental mobility in Morocco by policy-makers, non-governmental organisations, academics, and Islamic leaders. However, most empirical research on risk perceptions and religious views has relied on findings from Western and Christian communities, while data from Muslim communities or within communities strongly adherent to Islam are relatively rare. Nonetheless, Muslim communities are,…
We always ask about the weather”: Using visual mapping to understand how transnational migrant networks share beliefs and values on environmental change
The objective of this study is to investigate how transnational and translocal migrant networks contribute to knowledge acquisition, resource sharing, and collaborations related to environmental change adaptation. By using a combination of qualitative interviews and novel visual mapping techniques, this study seeks to understand how and by whom remittances are shared, including digital mobilities (e.g., social media and other forms of digital com…
Gendered dynamics in Moroccan transnational migrant networks in Tenerife: Environmental concerns, engagement, and remittances
The concept of transnational knowledge networks has entered the field of study of environmental mobility. Yet, how these networks play a role in adaptation to environmental change remains understudied. Power dynamics and familial ties impact the functioning of transnational networks and intricately shape responses to environmental challenges, with gender serving as a salient factor. This research aims to theorize and empirically study how gender …
Methodological reflections on visually mapping intangible remittances amidst environmental change
Emerging debates underscore the importance of advancing intangible remittances (IRs) research, particularly given the challenges of capturing nuanced exchanges within transnational migrant networks. This paper introduces visual mapping techniques as a new methodological tool for studying IRs in the context of environmental change to demonstrate how visual mapping can enable the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and practices within migrant networks. …
‘No one to help us when the rains don’t come’: Gendered climate resilience strategies of female informal dairy and herb traders in Ain Lahcen, Morocco
Rural Morocco is increasingly affected by climate variability, including rising temperatures, irregular rainfall, and frequent droughts, which threaten agricultural livelihoods and food security. These environmental stresses interact with existing social inequalities, such as limited access to land and employment for women and rigid gender norms, making households, especially women, more vulnerable. Drawing on two focus group discussions, this re…
“The weather feels familiar”: Moroccan migrants in Tenerife on how environmental change reshapes dual place attachments
Climate change not only affects the environments we live in but also shapes how we are attached to them. These place attachments are the emotional bonds individuals form with specific places, encompassing affective, behavioral, and cognitive connections. Migrants and other mobile communities maintain dual attachments to both their countries of origin and their new environments. This study focuses on Moroccan migrants living in Tenerife, Canary Is…
The Role of Glocal Celebrities and Diaspora Organizations in Environmental Change in Tenerife and Morocco
Recently, growing attention has been paid to the importance of intangible remittances for climate adaptation, including the exchange of knowledge, cultural practices, and normative frameworks within transnational networks. Most studies assume these concerns mainly involve knowledge exchange, but less is known about how such exchanges are embedded in normative structures. This latter concept is crucial to understand how remittances reflect and eve…
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (11 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental change (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works)