24 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

ACNUR saluda la Opinión Consultiva de la Corte Interamericana sobre emergencia climática y derechos humanos (ACNUR, July 2025) [text]
- See also related commentary from the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and the Verfassungsblog.

"Australia's climate visa: A model for sinking islands?," DW, 9 July 2025 [text]

Between drought and deluge: the fragility of ‘resilience’ in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Humanitarian Practice Network, June 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Kiswahili.

The Case for a Climate-Conscious Convention on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (EJIL: Talk Blog, July 2025) [text]

How the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Addresses Displacement, International Protection and Ongoing Statehood (RID Blog, July 2025) [text]

"To stay or go? The dilemma confronting Uganda’s climate displaced," The New Humanitarian, 14 July 2025 [text]

Reports:

Experiencias de desplazamiento forzado interno y reubicación de mujeres en contexto de eventos hidrometeorológicos en comunidades del Corredor Seco de Guatemala, RID Working Paper, no. 48 (Researching Internal Displacement, July 2025) [text]

Migration, Environment and Climate Change in Yemen (International Organization for Migration, July 22025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Becoming a Climate Migrant: Climate Change and Sequential Migration Decision-Making," Social Problems, Advance Articles, 31 May 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Colombia.

E-Migrinter, no. 25 (2025) [open access]
- Features a dossier on "Environnements et migrations."

"The Time Trap in International Protection: The Misplaced Notion of 'Imminence'," Georgetown Journal of International Law, vol. 56, no. 1 (Fall 2024) [full-text]
- Includes an exploration of how imminence has been used in the context of "protection from the (future) impacts of disasters and climate change."

"Trust Me, Stay: Institutional Trust, Drought Perceptions and Migration," International Migration, vol. 63, no. 4 (Aug. 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Africa.

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