21 July 2022

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts:

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Natural Hazards and Internal Displacement in Iraq (RID Blog, July 2022) [text

How climate change, overfishing and COVID drove irregular migration from West Africa (The Conversation, June 2022) [text]

Protecting victims of climate-induced migration and displacement in South Asia (Asia Pathways, June 2022) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

Cities at the forefront of conflict and climate migration: Mitigating the risks of conflict over urban land and water in fragile contexts (International Rescue Committee, July 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]
- "The study employed an area-based, ‘two-case’ exploratory case study approach conducting primary research in two neighborhoods affected by climate migration in Maiduguri, Nigeria and Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)."

"Climate-Induced Migration in West Africa," Chapter in Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, July 2022) [open access]

"Gaps in Protection for West African Migrants in Times of Crisis: The Role of a Multi-Stakeholder Platform Within a Partnership in Preparedness Model?," Chapter in Migration in West Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader (Springer, July 2022) [open access]
- Focuses on disaster management in Ghana.

Pacific Response to Disaster Displacement - Urban Case Study: Ba Town, Fiji (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, July 2022) [text]

Pacific Response to Disaster Displacement - Urban Case Study: Port Vila, Vanuatu (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, July 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

"Attitudes towards climate migrants in Aotearoa New Zealand: the roles of climate change beliefs and immigration attitudes," Regional Environmental Change, vol. 22, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

"Climate Change Compounds Longstanding Displacement in Afghanistan," Migration Information Source, 29 June 2022 [text]

"Exploring the Legal Basis in Australia for Evacuations from Disasters: Avoiding Arbitrary Displacement," University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 45, no. 4 (Forthcoming 2022) [postprint]

"The Follow-Up and Review Mechanisms of the Global Compacts: What Room is There for Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change?," Laws, vol. 11, no. 3 (June 2022) [open access]

"Putting climate-induced migration in context: the case of Honduran migration to the USA,"  Regional Environmental Change, vol. 22, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

"Shifting responsibility and denying justice: New Zealand’s contentious approach to Pacific climate mobilities," Regional Environmental Change, vol. 22, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

On the Run: Voluntary and Forced Climate Migration, 15 July 2022 [access]
- Focuses on the US.

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