23 April 2025

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]
- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Climate change: choices for displaced people." Submit proposals by 8 May 2025.  14 May 2025 (the deadline has been extended!)

Short pieces:

*"Aid groups are erasing climate change from their websites," The New Humanitarian, 24 April 2025 [text]

*Climate Refugees: Environmental and Immigration Law Under the Trump Administration (The Asylumist Blog, April 2025) [text]

Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents. An expert explains (The Conversation, April 2025) [text]

Welcoming the REP Fund’s External Advisory Team (UNHCR Blog, April 2025) [text]

What is Climate Migration? (USCRI, April 2025) [text]

"Where my heart belongs": Disaster-induced displacement in Nabavatu village, Fiji (RID Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports:

Acting on Loss and Damage: Linking Rural Livelihoods and Climate Mobility in Adaptation and Mitigation Planning (Researching Internal Displacement, April 2025) [text]
- See also related Guiding Framework and Toolkit.

How Habitability Shapes Climate-Related Migration and Displacement (Rice Univ., April 2025) [text]

The Impact of Environmental Drivers and Climate Change on Migration Trends and Protection Needs in Ethiopia (IOM, 2025) [text]

*Role of Human Mobility in Global Climate Policy: Belém and Beyond (Rice Univ., April 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate disasters and individual migration aspirations: evidence from Senegal and the Gambia," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 April 2025 [open access]

"Coming to Terms with Deep Uncertainty in the Study of Climate-Related Displacement," Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Converging Crises. A Qualitative Analysis of Online Representations and Narratives of Climate Migration," The CERLIS Journal: Studies on Specialized Languages ​​and Discourse Analysis, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 11.

"Managing two locations: Relocation, resettlement and negotiated immobility of climate-displaced communities in Zimbabwe," World Development Perspectives, vol. 38 (June 2025) [open access]

"Pathways to respond to climate change, forced displacement, and conflict challenges," Environment and Security, OnlineFirst, 26 March 2025 [open access]
- "Case studies from Lebanon and South Sudan are discussed... ."

"To what extent do climatic stressors drive human mobility in the world’s drylands? A systematic review of empirical evidence," Population and Environment, 47:16 (March 2025) [open access]
- See also related editorial in the Bulletin of the WHO.

Multimedia:

In a Climate Tinderbox, Migration Can Spark Violence, 8 April 2025) [access]

International Protection in the Context of Climate Change in Africa, 27 Feb. 2025 [access]

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