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20 August 2021

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]
- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Climate crisis and displacement: from commitment to action." Submission deadline is 25 October 2021.

CFP: Intervention [info]
- Contributions sought for a special section on "Mental health and psychosocial support and the global climate crisis." Submission deadline is 31 October 2021.

Blog posts & press:

Climate mobility in Africa: Taking the next steps for research and collaboration (Kaldor Centre, June 2021) [text]

Displaced Somalis and refugees struggle to recover as climate change brings new threats (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text]

Forced displacement and (im)mobility: what’s climate change got to do with it? (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Climate and Migration in East and the Horn of Africa: Spatial Analysis of Migrants’ Flows Data (IOM & Harvard Univ., Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

*"Climate Displacement and the Legal Gymnastics of Justice: Is It All Political?," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 35, no. 2 (2021) [free full-text]

"Climate Mobility and Development Cooperation," Population and Environment, Latest Articles, 17 July 2021 [open access]

"Deciphering Impacts and Human Responses to a Changing Climate in East Africa," Frontiers in Climate, 3 Aug. 2021 [open access]
- See also related press release and Twitter thread that comments on the article's findings.

In the Same Canoe: Building the Case for a Regional Harmonisation of Approaches to Humanitarian Entry and Stay in ‘Our Sea of Islands’ (Platform on Disaster Displacement, March 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the Pacific.

Risk Profile: Sudden-Onset Hazards and the Risk of Future Displacement in … (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, July 2021)

The State of Production, Dissemination, and Use of Disaster-Related Statistics in Selected Countries in Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP, July 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Task Force Report to the President on the Climate Crisis and Global Migration: A Pathway to Protection for People on the Move (Refugees International, July 2021) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Multimedia/resources:

What a changing climate means for human mobility in the Pacific, 16 June 2021 [access]
- Follow link for video recording.

Workshop series: Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Africa [access]
- This series took place between April & July 2021. Video recordings are available for the opening and closing plenaries, and background documents/resources have been posted for the various thematic working group sessions.

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