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Abstract 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 Islands, examining how they respond to changing environments and navigate across transnational spaces. Through in-depth qualitative interviews and visual mapping with 19 participants, the study finds that Moroccan migrants experience a complex, multidimensional sense of place attachment to both Morocco and Tenerife. They maintain strong emotional connections to Morocco through nostalgia, family ties, and cultural practices, even as they face environmental challenges such as drought and resource depletion. Cognitively, the departure of key community figures and environmental degradation increased feelings of uncertainty and influenced decisions to migrate. Behaviorally, social media is vital in maintaining connections to Morocco, but can intensify feelings of loss. The findings highlight the interplay among emotional, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions, as well as how environmental change complicates migrants' relationships with both their homeland and their destination.
Ou‐Salah et al. (Mon,) studied this question.