Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Webinar: Women, migration and climate change - local challenges and global perspectives, 3 September 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Climate Change, Injustice, and Displacement: Unraveling the Nexus (Pathfinders Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Expert Opinion: How can we address the nexus of climate change, migration, and infectious diseases? (Univ. of Oxford, Aug. 2024) [text]

Explainer: Cruz Galicia v. Garland on climate-related asylum (CGRS, July 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US. See also related factsheet. 

New risk index to predict climate displacement (Sydney Environment Inst., July 2024) [text]

Refugees without Recognition: Climate Change and Ecological and Gender Inequality (EJIL: Talk Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Are ‘Climate Refugees’ Compatible with the 1951 Refugee Convention? (E-International Relations, Aug. 2024) [text]

Climate change, human mobility, and conflict and fragility: An examination of dominant policy narratives - Honduras (CGIAR, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Displacement as a Development Issue: Enabling Public Policy to Unlock Climate Finance in Asia and the Pacific (Center for Global Development, July 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Disrupted Lives - Climate Crisis and Internal Displacement: A Case Study of Sumel District, Iraq (CARE, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

How the Cartagena +40 Process Can Improve Protection for Cross-Border Climate Displacement (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, July 2024) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

*Promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/79/176 (UN General Assembly, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

“Climate Refugee and International Law,” Law and Interscience Journal, vol. 3, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Developing regional migration, environment and climate change policy frameworks for action: the case of the Kampala Ministerial Declaration," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 2 (July 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 35

"'Environmental Refugees': Common Patterns Between Climate Change and Migration Dynamics," Law and Interscience Journal, vol. 3, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Framing Migration as Adaptation: IOM’s Aspirations to Manage Climate Migration," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 24 June 2024 [open access]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (17 July 2024)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

COP26 side event: Migration and Displacement in the era of the Climate Emergency: Political and Operational Challenges and Strategies at Global Level and in West Africa and the Sahel, 10 November 2021 [info]

COP26 side event: Climate impacts as drivers of displacement: science, human rights and policy response, 11 November 2021 [info]

COP26 side event: From Science to Policy and Action: Human Mobility in Times of Climate Change, 11 November 2021 [info]

*Call for registration: Launch of the Research Agenda and first meeting of the Research Network for advancing law and policy responses to displacement and migration in the context of disasters and climate change in Africa = Lancement de l'Agenda de recherche et première réunion du Réseau de recherche pour avancer les réponses juridiques et politiques aux déplacements et aux migrations dans le contexte des catastrophes et du changement climatique en Afrique, 30 November 2021 [text]

Blog posts & press:

Calling for Climate Action on Human Mobility (RI Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

"Climate change is an emergency for everyone, everywhere," Al Jazeera, 5 Nov. 2021 [text]

Environmental refugees and the 1951 Convention (Refugee History Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

In Honduras, climate change is one more factor sparking displacement (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

*Millions of people were evacuated during disasters last year – another rising cost of climate change (The Conversation, Oct. 2021) [text]

*Protecting people who lose their homes to climate change (The Interpreter Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Rohingya refugees restore depleted forest in Bangladesh (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

*"They're the invisible victims of climate change," NPR, 9 Nov. 2021 [text]

Urgent steps needed now to mitigate climate impact on displaced people (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

"What’s the aid sector’s carbon footprint?," The New Humanitarian, 27 Oct. 2021 [text]

- See also related podcast.

Reports & journal articles:

Addressing protection risks in a climate-changed world: challenges and opportunities (ODI, Oct. 2021) [text]

The concept of ‘climate refugee’: Towards a possible definition (European Parliament, Oct. 2021) [text]

"Disaster communications with resettled refugees: Six principles of engagement," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, In Press, 3 Nov. 2021 [open access]

Displacement in a Changing Climate: Localized humanitarian action at the forefront of the climate crisis (IFRC, Oct. 2021) [text]

Guidance on IDP Protection in the Context of Disasters and the Adverse Effects of Climate Change (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text]

Impacts of displacement: Drought displacement in Gode Woreda, Ethiopia (IDMC, Oct. 2021) [text]

Impacts of Displacement: Flood displacement in Beledweyne, Somalia (IDMC, Oct. 2021) [text]

Migration into a fragile setting: Responding to climate-induced informal urbanization and inequality in Basra, Iraq (IOM, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Practical Guidance for UNHCR Staff on IDP Protection in the Context of Disasters and the Adverse Effects of Climate Change (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text]

"Protecting People Displaced by Climate Change: Why the Refugee Convention does not Need an Update," University of New South Wales Law Journal Student Series, no. 24 (2021) [full-text]

Report on the Impact of Climate Change on Migration (White House, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related CSIS explainer.

Statelessness and Climate Change Factsheet (UNHCR & NRC, Oct. 2021) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

Multimedia:

Climate Displacement: Towards a Pragmatic Global Response, COP26 Side Event, 6 Nov. 2021 [access]

USIPC Strategy Conference on Climate Displaced Persons and Advocacy, 25 Oct. 2021 [access]

Whose move? Addressing migration and displacement in the face of climate change, 19-21 Oct. 2021 [access]

- Programme details are here; follow the a/m link to access video recordings.

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (8 Oct. 2021)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

*Climate & Migration (SIHMA Blog, April 2021) [text]

- Focuses on Africa.

Climate migrants: How German courts take the environment into account when considering non-refoulement (Völkerrechtsblog, March 2021) [text]

Honduras Migration: Climate Change, Violence, & Assistance (Future Development Blog, April 2021) [text]

It’s Time to Recognize Climate Refugees (International Policy Digest, April 2021) [text]

"Then and Now: 25 years of disasters, responses, and risk management," The New Humanitarian, 1 April 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Climatic conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration," Nature Communications, 12:2067 (April 2021) [open access]

- See also related blog post.

From Basic Needs to the Recovery of Livelihoods: Local integration of people displaced by drought in Ethiopia (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Recommendations on managing risk and addressing disaster displacement: challenges, effective practices and solutions, Asia-Pacific Policy Brief (Global Protection Cluster, March 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Leaving Place, Restoring Home: Enhancing the Evidence Base on Planned Relocation Cases in the Context of Hazards, Disasters, and Climate Change (Platform on Disaster Displacement & Kaldor Centre, March 2021) [text]

- See also related press release.

“Legal Protection for the Environmental Refugee,” Journal of Sharia and Law, vol. 2021, no. 85 (2021) [full-text]

Multimedia:

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: Is Climate Change Driving Migration from Central America?, 26 March 2021 [access]

- Follow link for podcast.

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: The Benefits of Climate Migration, 2 April 2021 [access]

- Follow link for podcast.

Climate Change & Forced Displacement, 25 Feb. 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Rising Sea Levels: Climate Displacement as a Human Right Violation, 17 March 2021 [access]

- See also related summary of Jane McAdam's presentation. 

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (18 March 2021)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Call for applicants: Two PhD positions, one postdoctoral position involving environment/migration-related research [info]

- Application deadline for all three positions is 21 December 2020.

Panel discussion: Re-examining displacement in the context of disasters and climate change: A Pacific perspective, 21 January 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Debunking myths around the displacement-climate change connection (Devex, Dec. 2020) [text]

Disappearing States, Rising Statelessness: The Twin Crises Just Around the Corner (RLI Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

From Climate Migration to Climate Mobilities (MPC Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Lessons learned: Responding to disaster displacement in the time of COVID-19 (IDMC Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Opinion: What does UNHCR's new guidance on the protection of 'climate refugees' mean? (Devex, Dec. 2020) [text]

*Rethinking Asylum on a Warming Planet (Jurist Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Twitter thread on "apocalyptic narratives about climate-linked mobility" (Alex Randall, Dec. 2020) [access]

Reports:

*Climate change induced migration: Informing policy on the internal migration (G20 Insights, Nov. 2020) [text]

Costs of climate inaction: displacement and distress migration (ActionAid, Dec. 2020) [text]

- Focuses on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

*Displaced populations due to environmental perils: The challenge of climate migrants for the G20 community (G20 Insights, Nov. 2020) [text]

“Environmental Refugees: Extreme events driving people from their homes,” The Water Wheel (Nov./Dec. 2020) [full-text]

- Report on a recently completed research project undertaken by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Scroll to p. 12. 

Human Mobility in the context of Environmental and Climate Change: Assessing current and recommended practices for analysis within DTM (IOM, Nov. 2022) [text]

The humanitarian impact of combined conflict, climate and environmental risks (ODI, Dec. 2020) [text]

New Approaches to Climate Change and Migration: Building the Adaptive Capacity of Mobile Populations (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2020) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Commentary: Environmental Mobility: The Responsibility of the International Community," International Migration, vol. 58, no. 6 (Dec. 2020) [free full-text]

"Commentary: Getting out of the climate migration ghetto: Understanding climate degradation and migration as processes of social inequalities," International Migration, vol. 58, no. 6 (Dec. 2020) [open access]

"Consistency and variation in the associations between refugee and environmental attitudes in European mass publics," Journal of Environmental Psychology, vol. 73 (Feb. 2021) [open access]

- See also related news release.

"Drought, flight, conflict: 'climate migration' as a driver for conflict?," Chapter in Climate Change, Security Risks, and Violent Conflicts: Essays from Integrated Climate Research in Hamburg (Hamburg Univ. Press, Nov. 2020) [full-text]

"Refugiados Climáticos, Vulnerabilidad y Protección Internacional," SCIO: Revista de Filosofía, no. 19 (Nov. 2020) [open access]

Multimedia:

Assessing the State of Data and Research on Human Mobility in the Context of Disaster, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation: Where are we and what comes next?, 24 Nov. 2020 [access]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (3 Dec. 2020)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts:

Can Climate Refugees Have Hope? (Psychology Today Blog, July 2020) [text]

Covid-19, Climate Migrants, and Complementary Protection: Why Socio-economic Rights Matter More Than Ever (RLI Blog, July 2020) [text]

Environmental Refugees - Error 404: Not Found in International Law (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Climate Change and Forced Migration: How Climate Refugees Fit into EU Asylum Law, Master's thesis (Uppsala University, 2020) [text]

"Climate Humanitarian Visa: International Migration Opportunities as Post-disaster Humanitarian Intervention," Climatic Change, vol. 160,  no. 1 (May 2020) [open access]

"Collaboration in International Policy for the Climate Displaced," Mundi: Global Studies Society Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

COVID-19, Displacement and Climate Change (UNHCR & Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, June 2020) [text]

Evicted by Climate Change: Confronting the Gendered Impacts of Climate-induced Displacement (CARE, July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related press release.

Forced Migration Review, no. 64 (June 2020) [open access]
- Includes a feature theme on "Climate crisis and local communities," with 11 articles.

Gender, Displacement and Climate Change (UNHCR & & Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research, July 2020) [text]

"Indeterminación del Estatus Jurídico del Migrante por Cambio Climático," Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, vol. XX (2020) [open access]

Internal Displacement in the Context of the Slow-onset Adverse Effects of Climate Change (IOM, June 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Note: This was IOM' submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons for a forthcoming report.

Land and Climate Change: Rights and Environmental Displacement in Mozambique (Leiden Univ., 2020) [access]
- Follow link for research report and policy brief in English and Portuguese.

"Quantifying Climate Change Relevant Humanitarian Programming and Spending Across Five Highly Disaster Vulnerable Countries," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 8 July 2020 [open access]

When Crises Converge: Responding to Natural Disasters in South Asia during Covid-19 (UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Climate Change and Migration: Converging Issues, Diverging Funding, Webinar, 29 June 2020 [info]
- Follow link for podcast and video recording.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (8 June 2020)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Climate Displacement Program Manager, Refugees International [info]
- Candidate sought to implement "RI’s strategy and advocacy to enhance the legal, policy, and operational responses and solutions to displacement and forced migration arising in the context of disasters and climate change." No deadline indicated.

Publications:

Australia’s Chance to Turn with the Tide: Enabling Safe, Orderly, and Dignified Movement (APPS Policy Forum, May 2019) [text]

"Climate Change & Mobilities," Routed Magazine (June 2019) [access]
- "In this issue, we examine this complex and multidimensional connection between migration, (im)mobilities and the planet’s changing climate. From the Pacific Islands to the Gulf of Mexico, our authors look into how communities and governments respond to climate challenges and decide to move or to stay. We test the current legal framework for refugees to see if climate-induced migrants could fit into it, and we warn about the dangers of xenophobic discourse trying to penetrate areas of the movement for climate justice. Our first long read sheds light into the ways in which mobility is tied to the functioning of fossil fuel industries too."

"Climate Now Biggest Driver of Migration, Study Finds," SciDev.net, 8 May 2019 [text]

Communicating the Complexity of Displacement in a Changing Climate (UNHCR Innovation Service, March 2019) [text via Medium]
- Scroll down to access the five chapters in this special report.

Cross-border Displacement, Climate Change and Disasters: Latin America and the Caribbean (Platform on Disaster Displacement & UNHCR, July 2018) [text]

"Defining Environmental Refugees," The Parliament Magazine, 10 May 2019 [text]

Disaster Displacement: How to Reduce Risk, Address Impacts and Strengthen Resilience (UNDRR, June 2019) [access]
- Follow link for report in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.

"Environmental Refugees: Rethinking What's in a Name," North Carolina Journal of International Law, vol. 44 (2019) [full-text via Univ. of Baltimore]

How Climate Change Exacerbates the Refugee Crisis – and What can be Done about It (World Economic Forum Blog, June 2019) [text]

Lineamientos Regionales en Materia de Protección y Asistencia a Personas Desplazadas a Través de Fronteras y Migrantes en Países Afectados por Desastres de Origen Natural (IOM & Platform on Disaster Displacement, Nov. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Links Between Climate Change, Disasters, Migration, and Social Resilience in Asia: A Literature Review (Asia Development Bank, July 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Midyear Update: Climate Displacement," The New Humanitarian, 24 June 2019 [text]

La Movilidad Humana en la Agenda Climática de las Américas: Necesidades y Oportunidades (IOM, June 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Natural Disasters 2018 (CRED, June 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Overlapping Vulnerabilities: The Impacts of Climate Change on Humanitarian Needs (Norwegian Red Cross, May 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Climate Change and Humanitarian Consequences: Perspectives, Challenges and Responses, Oslo, 5 June 2019 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (6 May 2019)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

"Another Climate Change Concern: Forced Migration," Harvard Gazette, 29 Sept. 2017 [text]

Beyond Climate Migration: Escaping the Confines of a Concept (Climate & Migration Coalition, Sept. 2017) [text]

Climate Change and the Migration Crisis (Huffington Post, Oct. 2017) [text]

*"Climate-Induced Displacement and Climate Disaster Law: Barriers and Opportunities," Chapter in Climate Disaster Law: Barriers and Opportunities (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2018) [preprint]

Climate Refugees Mini-Symposium (International Law @UEA, July-Sept. 2017?) [access]
- Scroll down to view all nine posts in this blog series.

"Disaster-induced Displacement in the Caribbean and the Pacific," Forced Migration Review, no. 56 (Oct. 2017) [open access]

"The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: How Can Low-Income Countries Cope?," Chapter 3 in World Economic Outlook (IMF, Oct. 2017) [text]
- See also related blog post and Bloomberg article.

Environmental Justice, vol. 10, no. 4 (Aug. 2017) [contents]
- Special issue on "Climate Refugees and the Human Cost of Global Climate Change."

*Gone with the Wind: International Migration, Economics Discussion Papers Series, no. 1708 (University of Otago, April 2017) [text]
- Study looking into the determinants of international migration found "that climate change is a more important driver than income and political freedom together."

"Guest Editorial: Climate Change, Migration and Displacement of Populations: A Special Issue," International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Earlycite, 2017 [open access]
- Note: This issue has not yet been officially published; however, many of the articles that will make up the issue are already available open access online, including "Social Protection as a Strategy to Address Climate-induced Migration," "Who Takes Responsibility for the Climate Refugees?," "Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A South American Approach," "Displacement and Climate Change: Improving Planning Policy and Increasing Community Resilience," and "Policies and Mechanisms to Address Climate-induced Migration and Displacement in Pacific and Caribbean Small Island Developing States."

"Human Security and the Relocation of Internally Displaced Environmental Refugees in Cameroon," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3 (Sept. 2017) [open access]

"The RCM Guide: A Novel Protection Tool for Cross-border Disaster-induced Displacement in the Americas," Forced Migration Review, no. 56 (Oct. 2017) [open access]

Shrinking Options: The Nexus Between Climate Change, Displacement and Security in the Lake Chad Basin (Climate Refugees, Sept. 2017) [text via IOM]

Six Things Governments Should Do about Hurricane Displacement Right Now (Climate & Migration Coalition, Oct. 2017) [text]

"Towards a Regional Agreement on Environmental Displacement?," Forced Migration Review, no. 56 (Oct. 2017) [open access]

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Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (27 July 2017)

Tagged Publications.

New Issue of RSQ

The latest issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) has been published. Contents of vol. 36, no. 3, Sept. 2017 include:

• The Expansion of International Space: UNHCR’s Establishment of its Executive Committee (“ExCom”) [abstract] [preview via Academia.edu]
• Human Security and the Relocation of Internally Displaced Environmental Refugees in Cameroon [open access]
• The Borders Beyond the Border: Australia’s Extraterritorial Migration Controls [abstract] [full-text via author site]
• The “Stateless Person” Definition in Selected EU Member States: Variations of Interpretation and Application [abstract]
• Unwelcome Participation, Undesirable Agency? Paradoxes of De-Politicisation in a Refugee Camp [abstract]

Many thanks to Gertrud Buchenrieder, Christina Mack & Azibo Roland Balgah for making their article open access!

Tagged Periodicals.

Regional Focus: Africa

2016 Migrant Profiling Report: Analysis of Profiling Interviews of Migrants Assisted in 2016 through IOM's Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration Program in Niger (IOM, Aug. 2017) [text]

The Abuja Action Statement on Protection in the Lake Chad Basin – One Year On (UNHCR, Aug. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Engaging the Gatekeepers: Using Informal Governance Resources in Mogadishu (Tana Copenhagen, March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related Devex news article.

"Human Security and the Relocation of Internally Displaced Environmental Refugees in Cameroon," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3 (Sept. 2017) [open access]

“I Fled Because I was Afraid to Die”: Causes of Exile of Burundian Asylum Seekers (International Refugee Rights Initiative, Aug. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related African Arguments article.

Informal Settlement Managers: Perception and Reality in Informal IDP Camps in Mogadishu (Tana Copenhagen, Aug. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Joint Statement on the High-Level Dialogue between the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (Aug. 2017) [text]

Language Barriers in the Humanitarian Response in North-eastern Nigeria: Initial Assessment (Translators without Borders, Aug. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

On the Edge of Disaster: Somalis Forced to Flee Drought and Near Famine Conditions (Refugees International, Aug. 2017) [text]

Rendering South Africa Undesirable: A Critique of Refugee and Informal Sector Policy, SAMP Migration Policy Series, no. 79 (Southern African Migration Programme, 2017) [text]

"A Step Forward in the Protection of Urban Refugees: The Legal Protection of the Rights of Urban Refugees in Uganda," African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 27, no. 1 (2017) [open access]

Supporting Central African Refugees in Cameroon: Policy and Practice in Response to Protracted Displacement (ODI, Aug. 2017) [text]


Related post:
- Regional Focus: Africa (27 July 2017)

Tagged Publications.

New Book Titles

Please visit my Pinterest page to learn about new books due out in July 2017. I have also included a few additional titles in the June 2017, New Legal Texts, and Open Access book boards.

If you are not a member of Pinterest, these new titles are listed below for your reference (organized by title).

July 2017:

Peter J. Hoffman & Thomas G. Weiss, Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield, July 2017

Andreas Grimmel & Susanne My Giang, eds., Solidarity in the European Union: A Fundamental Value in Crisis, Springer, July 2017; see esp., "Actual Patterns of Migration Flows: The Challenge of Migration and Asylum in Contemporary Europe" and "Solidarity in European Migration Policy: The Perspective of the Visegrád States."

June 2017:

Salman Zarka & Alexander Lerner, eds., Complicated War Trauma and Care of the Wounded: The Israeli Experience in Medical Care and Humanitarian Support of Syrian Refugees, Springer, June 2017

Mateja Sedmak, Birgit Sauer & Barbara Gornik, eds., Unaccompanied Children in European Migration and Asylum Practices: In Whose Best Interests?, Routledge, June 2017

New Legal Texts:

Hélène Ragheboom, The International Legal Status and Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons: A European Perspective, Brill/Nijhoff, July 2017

Open Access:

Amada Armenta, Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement, University of California Press, June 2017

Tagged Books.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change, Migration & Displacement

Event & opportunity:

Workshop: Environmental Displacement in 2017: Current Protection Challenges, Sheffield, UK, 16 June 2017 [info]

CFP: Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration, and the Environment, Oxford, 3-4 August 2017 [info]
- Submit abstracts for the summer session by 10 July 2017.

Resources:

Addressing the Protection Gap of Environmental Refugees: A Reform of the 1951 Refugee Convention? (International Law under Construction Blog, March 2017) [text]

Adverse Effects of Climate Change and Natural Disasters as Drivers of Migration, Panel 3 at Second Informal Thematic Session for the Global Compact on Migration, New York, 22-23 May 2017 [info]
- One of the presentations is available via the Platform on Disaster Displacement. Video of the session, notes for the two other presentations, and related statements are available via the UN. Scroll down to access.

Building Global Governance for ‘Climate Refugees’ (T20 Forced Migration Task Force, updated May 2017) [text]

Climate Change, Displacement and Community Relocation: Lessons from Alaska (NRC & Alaska Institute for Justice, May 2017) [text]

Climate Change, Migration & Displacement: New Perspectives on Regional Approaches to Climate-induced Migration, Displacement and Relocation, New York, 16 May 2017 [info]
- Follow link to access video.

Climate Violence?, Oxford, 11 May 2017 [info]
- Follow link for video.

Notes from the 1 Day Course on Climate Change and Migration: Resources and Further Reading (Climate & Migration Coalition, June 2017) [text]

Opinion: 4 Recommendations to Prepare for Climate-related Migration (Devex, June 2017) [text]

Protecting Disaster Displaced Persons through Better Data and Knowledge on Displacement Risks, Side event at 2017 Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, Cancún, Mexico, 22-26 May 2017 [info]
- Follow link for concept note, policy brief and press release.

Quick Guide: Climate Change & Disaster Displacement (UNHCR, May 2017) [text]

Seven Reasons the UN Refugee Convention Should Not Include 'Climate Refugees' (Kaldor Centre, June 2017) [text]

UNHCR, Displacement and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR): A Policy Brief (UNHCR, updated 2017) [text via PreventionWeb]

Urban Perspectives: Climate Change, Migration, Planning and Finance - A New Generation of Ideas 2017 (Wilson Center & USAID, March 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (11 May 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change

Event & opportunity:

Seminar: Planned Relocation in the Context of Climate Change: Practical Tools, Washington, DC, 11 April 2017 [info]

Course: Understanding Climate Change and Migration, London, 23 May 2017 [info]

Resources:

Addressing the Protection Gap of Environmental Refugees: A Reform of the 1951 Refugee Convention? (Groningen Journal of International Law Blog, March 2017) [text]

Assessing the Climate Change–Migration Nexus through the Lens of Migrants: The Case of the Republic of Mauritius (IOM, March 2017) [text]

Building Global Governance for 'Climate Refugees' (T20 Forced Migration Task Force, March 2017) [text]

The Climate Change-Human Trafficking Nexus (IOM, March 2017) [text]

Climate Migration and Resettlement Workshop: Thoughts from the Discussions (Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Prog. in Climate Justice Blog, March 2017) [text]

"Detecting Climate Adaptation with Mobile Network Data in Bangladesh: Anomalies in Communication, Mobility and Consumption Patterns during Cyclone Mahasen," Climatic Change, vol. 138, no. 3 (Oct. 2016) [open access]
- See also related UKCCMC blog post.

The Devil’s in the Detail: Policymaking on Climate Change and Human Mobilities Post-Paris (TransRe Connecting the Spots Blog, March 2017) [text]

Discussion Series: Climate Change and Forced Migration Edition (ESPMI, March 2017) [access]
- Six contributors address the question of "Climate Change and Forced Migration: How Should Governments Respond?"

"Ensuring the Rights of Climate-displaced People in Bangladesh," Forced Migration Review, no.54 (Feb. 2017) [open access]

Environmental Displacement and Environmental Migration: Blurred Boundaries Require Integrated Policies, RRN/CRS Policy Brief (Refugee Research Network, Dec. 2016) [text]

Heading off a Climate Migration Crisis in Asia (Asian Development Blog, March 2017) [text]

Interview: Preparing for Climate and Disaster Migration (openDemocracy, March 2017) [text]

Making Mobility Work for Adaptation to Environmental Changes: Results from the MECLEP Global Research (IOM, April 2017) [text]

Migration as Adaptation to Environmental and Climate Change: The Case of Kenya (IOM, 2017) [text]

On the Run from Climate Change, ABC Radio National, 30 March 2017 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Siirtolaisuus-Migration, no. 1 (2017) [full-text]
- Includes feature on "Environmental Change," with two English-language articles: "The Politics of Rights Protection for Environmentally Displaced People" and "Evidence for Policy: Human Mobility as Adaptation to Climate and Environmental Change."


Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (9 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.

New ETDs/Student Papers - Pt. 2

Case Law Study on the Refugee Status Determination of 'Tamil's' in Australia and New Zealand and the Interpretation of the Refugee Convention, Thesis (Lund Univ., Spring 2016) [text]

The Complexity of Refuge: The Profound Effect of Law and Policy on Refugee Claimants, Bachelor's thesis (St. Mary's Univ., April 2016) [text]

Immigrants and Refugees as Vulnerable Populations: Considerations for School Based Health Centers, Thesis (Wright State Univ., July 2016) [text]

Refugees and Resettlement: A Qualitative Analysis of Refugee Integration through Social and Support Services, Dissertation (Univ. of Maryland, 2016) [text]

Repatriation of Afghan Refugees from Pakistan: Participation, Consultation and Consent in the Resettlement Process, Thesis (Lund Univ., Spring 2016) [text]

To What Extent the People of the Three Gorges Dam in China are Environmental Refugees, Bachelor's thesis (Leiden University, Aug. 2016) [text]

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change/Disasters & Displacement

Are You a Refugee if Climate Change Forces You to Migrate? COP21 and "Climate Displaced Persons" (Ethics Centre Blog, Dec. 2015) [text]

Assessing the Evidence: Migration, Environment and Climate Change in Haiti (IOM, 2015) [text]
- Note: This and the report below are the first two national assessments published under the MECLEP project. Still to come are reports on the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Mauritius and Viet Nam.

Assessing the Evidence: Migration, Environment and Climate Change in Papua New Guinea (IOM, 2015) [text]

Bringing Climate Displacement to the Fore (RI Blog, Nov. 2015) [text]

Climate Change and Migration: Expanding the Debate on a Multidimensional Relation (COST, Dec. 2015) [text]

Climate Change, Disasters and Refugees: Talking Points (Univ. of London, Oct. 2015) [access]
- Follow link for video.

Climate-Induced Displacement and Migration: Policy Gaps and Policy Alternative - A Likely Legal Instrument for a Rights-Based Political Solution (Center for Participatory Research and Development, Nov. 2015) [text]

COP21: Paris Climate Summit: Is Migration the Elephant in the Room? (IRIN, Nov. 2015) [text]

Expert View: Walter Kälin on the Climate Negotiations in Paris (UKCCMC, Dec. 2015) [access]
- Follow link for podcast.  See also related blog post.

Food, Migration and Climate Change: The Untold Story (IFAD, Dec. 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Global Issues Don’t Live in Separate Boxes. Why No Mention in Paris of Refugees?," The Guardian, 12 Dec. 2015 [text]

How Climate Change Impacts Human Displacement (UNHCR, Nov. 2015) [access]
- Follow link for video.

Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change (Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility, Nov. 2015) [text]

The Importance of Social Science Research for Understanding Climate Change Induced Migration, Side event at COP21, Paris, 1 Dec. 2015 [text]

Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change (IOM Blog, Nov. 2015) [text]

Primary Documents: Full Text of Paris Climate Change Agreement (COP21) and Additional Documents (Infodocket, Dec. 2015) [access]

Refugees: Displaced from the Paris Climate Change Agreement? (Future Development Blog, Dec. 2015) [text]

Relocation as an Adaptation Strategy to Environmental Stress: Lessons from the Mekong River Delta in Viet Nam, Migration, Environment and Climate Change Policy Brief Series, vol. 1, no. 6 (Nov. 2015) [text]
- Note: Other publications in this series are available here.

*Top 10 of 2015 – Issue #7: Climate Change and Natural Disasters Displace Millions, Affect Migration Flows (Migration Information Source, Dec. 2015) [text]

UNHCR, Displacement and Disaster Risk Reduction (UNHCR, Dec. 2015) [text]

Why COP21 Won't Solve the 'Climate Refugee' Problem (CityLab, Dec. 2015) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Displacement (13 Nov. 2015)


Tagged Publications.

New ETDs - Pt. 3

Journey of Jeopardy: Using Multimedia Storytelling to Humanize the Immigration Experience of Central American Families Seeking Asylum in Oregon, Bachelor thesis (Univ. of Oregon, June 2015) [text]

Maternal and Perinatal Health of Refugees in Ontario: A Population-based Perspective, Dissertation (Univ. of Toronto, June 2015) [text]

Mental Health and Well-being of Refugees to Canada: A Brighter Future, Thesis (Univ. of Manitoba, Sept. 2015) [text]

The Need for International Policy for Environmental Refugees, Senior project (California Polytechnic State Univ., June 2015) [text]

Partnership for Education? A Case Study on Tumaco, Colombia on a North-South Co-operation for Education in Conflict Areas, Thesis (Univ. of Oslo, May 2015) [text]

[Esoteric note: If you ever wonder why I always break up these ETD posts into multiple parts, it's because Blogger limits the number of characters that I can use to create subject labels!]

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Natural Disasters

"'Climate Change Migrants’: Impediments to a Protection Framework and the Need to Incorporate Migration into Climate Change Adaptation Strategies," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 27, no. 1 (March 2015) [preprint via Academia.edu]

"Environmental Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Perspectives on the Trends, Causes, Challenges and Way Forward," GeoJournal, vol. 80, no. 1 (Feb. 2015) [text via ResearchGate]

Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation on Climate Change, Disasters and Human Mobility in South Asia and Indian Ocean, Khulna, Bangladesh, 3-5 April 2015 [info]
- Follow link for agenda, background paper, conclusions, commissioned research, photos, and a video summary of the consultation.

"Protecting the Human Rights of Climate Displaced Persons: The Promise and Limits of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change," Chapter 20 in Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming June 2015) [eprint via SSRN]

The Protection of Environmentally Displaced Persons: Quo Vadis? (SSRN, March 2015) [text]

*The Rights of Climate Displaced Persons: A Quick Guide (Displacement Solutions, April 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

Sendai Framework: An Important Step Forward for People Displaced by Disasters (UpFront Blog, March 2015) [text]

Visualising Migration and Climate Change: What Can Web and Social Media Data Tell Us about Public Interest in Migration and Climate Change? (UKCCMC, March 2015) [text]

What You Need to Know about DRR (IRIN, March 2015) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change (16 March 2015)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Displacement

Event:

Protecting People on the Move in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change, Sydney, 4 November 2014 [info]
- Free event, but RSVP requested.

Publications:

Climate Change and Internal Displacement (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, Oct. 2014) [text]

"Climate Change and Migration: From Geopolitics to Biopolitics," Special issue of Critical Studies on Security, vol. 2, no. 2 (2014) [access]
- The first two articles are freely available.

The Climate Change Summit: Why Humanitarians Should Pay Attention (Planet Policy Blog, Sept. 2014) [text]

"Constructing 'Climate Migration' as a Global Governance Issue: Essential Flaws in the Contemporary Literature," McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, vol. 9, no. 1 (2013) [full-text]

"Contextualising Typologies of Environmentally Induced Population Movement," Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, vol. 23, no. 5 (2014) [open access]

Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia Regional Consultation, Manila, 15-17 Oct. 2014 [background paper]

*Perspective (Nansen Initiative, Sept. 2014) [text]
- See also related information leaflet.

Prevent, Prepare, and Respond: Displacement in the Context of Disasters and the Effects of Climate Change, Side event at the Third UN Conference on Small Island Developing States, Apia, Samoa, 1-4 Sept. 2014 [concept note]

"The Rising Tide of Environmental Migrants: Our National Responsibilities," Colorado Natural Resources, Energy, & Environmental Law Review, vol. 25, no. 2 (Summer 2014) [full-text]

Summary Report of the Regional Training Workshop: Enhancing Capacities of Policymakers and Practitioners on Migration, Environment and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (IOM, 2014) [text]

Trend and Impact Analysis of Internal Displacement due to the Impacts of Disaster and Climate Change (Government of Bangladesh, June 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (8 Sept. 2014)

*UPDATED

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Climate Change

Opportunities:

CFP: Environmental Changes and Human Mobility: What Role for Migration Governance?, Bern, Switz., 24 October 2014 [info]
- Application deadline is 31 July 2014.

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]
- Submissions sought for theme issue on "Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement"; deadline for articles is 12 January 2015.

Publications:

*"Climate Refugee Threat in Tropics Rises, but International Action Lags," World Politics Review, 17 July 2014 [text]

Integrating Disaster-Induced Displacement within the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Paper prepared for the Preparatory Committee of the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, 14-15 July 2014 (Nansen Initiative, July 2014) [text]

Planned Relocations, Disasters and Climate Change: Consolidating Good Practices and Preparing for the Future: Background Document, Sanremo Consultation, 12-14 March 2014 [text]
- Prepared by Brookings, ISIM & UNHCR.

"Protecting People Displaced by Weather-related Disasters and Climate Change: Experience from the Field," Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 15, no. 4 (Spring 2014) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 803.

Should International Refugee Law Accommodate Climate Change? (UN News Service, July 2014) [text via Refworld]

"The State Responsibility in the Face of Environmentally Displaced Persons," Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, vol. 4, no. 2 (2014) [full-text]

"Warm World, Cold Reception: Climate Change, National Security and Forced Migration," Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 15, no. 4 (Spring 2014) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 752.

*updated

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change (25 June 2014)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Thematic Focus: Climate Change

Climate Displacement and Resilient Communities: Lessons from the Case of Manatí, Colombia (Climate and Development Knowledge Network, April 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

The "Climate Refugee" Court Case Shows that the Asylum System will be Fruitless for People Moving Due to Climate Impacts (UKCCMC, June 2014) [text]

Disasters and Displacement: What We Know, What We Don’t Know (PlanetPolicy Blog, June 2014) [text]

Discussion Forum on Climate Change, Berlin, 17 June 2014 [text]
- Remarks by Volker Türk.

"Drifting Along: The Rise of the Environmental Refugee," Section 5 in U.S. National Debate Topic, 2014-2015: The Ocean, The Reference Shelf, vol. 86, no. 3 (H. W. Wilson, 2014) [text]
- This year's policy debate topic selected by the National Federation of State High School Associations is "The Ocean."  This volume includes "reprints of articles, excerpts from books, addresses on current issues, and studies of social trends in the United States and other countries." Scroll to p. 138.

A Fresh Start for Climate Change Refugees (IRIN, June 2014) [text]

Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change: The Time to Get Ready is Now (PlanetPolicy Blog, June 2014) [text]

Time to Act: How the EU Can Lead on Climate Change and Migration (Heinrich Böll Foundation, June 2014) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change (21 May 2014)

Tagged Publications.