Opportunities:
Webinar: To Stay or To Go? Frontline Stories of Climate Mobility in the Pacific, 2 June 2021 [info]
Workshop series: Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Africa [info]
- A summary and video recording of the open plenary session have been posted. Workshop sessions will continue to be held virtually in June and July. Follow the link for more details in both English and French, as well as background information about the series and access to a wide variety of online resources that were compiled for each thematic working group. See also this related Thomson Reuters Foundation News article.
Blog posts & press:
Climate Migration: An Impending Global Challenge (State of the Planet Blog, May 2021) [text]
Disasters, climate change and public order: A principled application of regional refugee definitions (RLI Blog, May 2021) [text]
Making responsibility-sharing operational: Comparing asylum and climate governance (Rethinking Refuge, May 2021) [text]
New study analyzes the influence of the extreme weather and geological conditions on the forced migrations of Paiwan people of southern Taiwan (Spanish National Research Council, April 2021) [text via PreventionWeb]
The U.S. owes a massive climate debt. One way to pay it: Let in climate migrants (Fast Company, May 2021) [text]
Weather Report: The Current State of the Climate Change-Refugee Nexus (UNHCR, May 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Africa.
New books:
Global Report on Internal Displacement 2021 (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, May 2021) [access]
- "This year's GRID discusses the relationship between climate change, disasters and displacement, and presents good practices from across the globe in advancing policy, displacement risk reduction and effective response." A number of background papers were also prepared; see below under "reports" for a listing.
Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In Search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes (Springer, 2021) [open access]
- "This open access book studies the migration aspirations and trajectories of people living in two regions in Morocco that are highly affected by environmental change or emigration, namely Tangier and Tinghir, as well as the migration trajectories of immigrants coming from these regions currently living in Belgium."
Reports & GRID background papers:
Advocating to Strengthen Disaster Laws and Policies to Protect Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (IFRC, April 2021) [text]
Adapting on the move: Climate change displacement and local solutions in coastal communities in Sindh, Pakistan [text]
Disasters and Displacement in Bangladesh: Re-conceptualising Strategies of Risk Reduction and Resilience [text]
Generating Political Commitment to Address Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change on the Regional and National Level: Experiences from the Caribbean and Pacific Regions and the Horn of Africa [text]
Hot, wet, and deserted: Climate Change and Internal Displacement in India, Peru, and Tanzania - Insights from the EPICC Project [text]
Island Stories: Mapping the (im)mobility trends of slow-onset environmental processes in three island groups of the Philippines [text]
Moving from one risk to another: Dynamics of hazard exposure and disaster vulnerability for displaced persons, migrants and other people on the move [text]
Planned relocation from Danube floodplains in Austria: Lessons learned from five decades of policy practice [text]
Rethinking Predictive Analytics for Disaster Resource Allocation: Integrating Vulnerability and Sustained Impact into Risk Modelling [text]
Articles:
"The 1971 Bangladesh War and Policy Lessons for Climate Refugee Management in South Asia," P&P: Politics & Policy, vol. 49, no. 1 (2021) [free full-text]
"Bargaining for Protection: The Case of Climate Refugees," E-International Relations, 18 May 2021 [full-text]
- Reports on two case studies: Somali refugees in Kenya and Pacific migrants in New Zealand.
"Climate displacement and the need for legal protection," ANU Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 11, no. 1 (2021) [full-text]
CRED Crunch Newsletter, no. 62 (May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Issue theme is "Disaster Year in Review 2020: Global Trends and Perspectives."
"Willingness to help climate migrants: A survey experiment in the Korail slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh," PLoS ONE 16(4): e0249315 (April 2021) [open access]
"With Our Feet to the Fire: Regional Agreements as Mechanisms of Changing International Law to Include Persons Displaced by Climate Change," Emory International Law Review, vol. 35, no. 3 (2021) [full-text]
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