The paper conceptualises the process of voluntary relocation undertaken by rural farmers to informal settlements in coastal cities. These are journeys that occur without formal institutional support, utilising migrants' own agency. Learning from these community‐driven relocations has merit in rethinking climate change adaptation at the regional level. In this paper we present stories of 17 families who have progressively relocated to the fringes of Khulna city in southwestern Bangladesh. We observe three key attributes: first, relocations are slow, neither singular nor immediately completed, but rather take months of careful back and forth journeys of family members between their places of origin and destination. Second, relocations rely on small networks of relatives and acquaintances at the destination. Third, relocations are built on shared responsibilities distributed among a range of actors in places of origin and destination. We conclude that these slow, small and shared relocations are likely to be realised as forms of ongoing adaptation by rural farmers if their aspirational mobilities, social relations and supports are maintained at a regional scale. This kind of migration as adaptation may bring about just outcomes for those displaced without necessarily promoting rigid planning interventions that tend to fix resettlement solutions in place and time.

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缓慢，小型和共享的自愿搬迁：学习生活在孟加拉国库尔纳市边缘地区的移民的经验

本文将农村农民自愿搬迁到沿海城市非正式定居点的过程概念化。这些都是在没有正式机构支持的情况下利用移民自己的代理进行的旅程。从这些社区主导的搬迁中吸取经验教训，对于重新思考区域层面的气候变化适应是有益的。在本文中，我们介绍了17个家庭的故事，这些家庭已逐渐搬迁到孟加拉国西南部的库尔纳市边缘。我们观察到三个关键属性：首先，搬迁很慢，既没有完成也没有立即完成，而是需要几个月的家人在原籍和目的地之间来回仔细的旅行。二，搬迁靠小目的地的亲戚和熟人网络。第三，搬迁建立在分担责任的基础上，分担责任分布在始发地和目的地的一系列参与者之间。我们得出的结论是，如果农民的志愿活动，社会关系和支持在区域范围内得到维持，这些缓慢，小规模和共享的搬迁很可能会被农村农民理解为正在进行的适应形式。这种作为适应的迁移可能会为流离失所者带来公正的结果，而不必促进严格的计划干预措施，这些干预措施往往会在原地和时间上确定移民解决方案。