Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

Climate, Migration, and Displacement: What are the Implications for Human Rights Law? (RI Blog, May 2020) [text]

Migration is a Safety Net during Climate Change Disasters (ISS Today, May 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Africa.

"Opinion: Updating the 1951 Convention for Refugees," e-International Relations, 28 May 2020 [text]

The Twin Calamities of Climate Change and COVID-19 (Kaldor Centre, May 2020) [text]

UNHCR: Help Us Protect the Environment to Protect Refugees (UNHCR, June 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"The Absent Victims: An Ecolinguistic Study of Environmental Refugees in The New York Times," JAMIT: Journal of American Studies in Italy, no. 3 (2020) [open access]

"Climate Change and Forced Migration," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 11 (2020) [open access]
- Note: Text is available in both English and Spanish.

"Climate Change, Displacement, and Managed Retreat in Coastal India," Migration Information Source, 22 May 2020 [full-text]

Climate Change-Induced Displacement: Can Refugee Law Be an Answer?, TLI Think Paper, no. 16 (King's College London, May 2020) [text]

Climate Migrants Pushed to the Brink (ICMPD & CANSA, May 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on South Asia.

*"Climate Refugees in Mainstream Media," International Relations Journal, vol. 39 (2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 48.

Disaster and Displacement (UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Feb. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Migration, Environment and Climate Change Series (Umweltbundesamt, March 2020) [access]
- Follow link for three reports.

*"Migration Health Crisis Associated with Climate Change: A Systematic Review," Journal of Education and Health Promotion, vol. 9 (April 2020) [open access]

Migration Policy Practice, vol. X, no. 1 (Jan.-March 2020) [open access]
- Special issue on "Data, Human Mobility and the Environment," with 5 articles.

Our Moral Responsibility Towards Climate Refugees, Paper submitted to the Bioethics Research Showcase (GU Kennedy Inst. of Ethics, March 2020) [text]

"Protecting People Displaced by the Impacts of Climate Change: The UN Human Rights Committee and the Principle of Non-Refoulement," American Journal of International Law, Postprint version, 29 April 2020 [free full-text]

Water and Migration: A Global Overview (United Nations University, May 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Resources:

Climate Change and Migration in Africa Series (Africa Portal) [access]
- This series "seeks to shed light on these interconnected issues and contribute to a growing body of policy work to enable civil society and governments to navigate these challenges and prevent a human crisis across the continent." In Part 1, four experts detail the issues and in Part 2, the nine winners of a policy briefs research competition are presented.

Health and Migration, Environment and Climate Change (IOM) [access]
- "This page compiles a list of IOM documents and other relevant resources that can be useful to understand the migration, environmental, climate change and health nexus."

Q&A: Climate Change, Migration and Covid 19, Webinar, 19 May 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video.

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1 (22 April 2020)
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 2 (22 April 2020)