Human mobility and environmental change: a survey of perceptions and policy direction

Thornton, Fanny; McNamara, Karen E.; Farbotko, Carol; Dun, Olivia; Ransan-Cooper, Hedda; Chevalier, Émilie; Lkhagvasuren, Purevdulam

doi:10.1007/s11111-018-0309-3

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“…An important consideration in understanding and promoting framing in the context of climate displacement is that there might be tensions between frames preferred by international organizations, NGOs, and national governments-such as human rights frames-and those which are prevalent within local, customary forms of law and justice (Arnall Alex and McKinnon 2019). Especially, with the apparent research, domination in the field urgently needs to be supplemented by more integration across various professional settings like research, the public sector, national government, NGO, media, and private sector (Thornton et al 2018). This paper generates new insights that indeed there are different preferred frames by expanding the partnering with participants from two professional settings: research and the national government.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus

Ebrahimi

Ossewaarde

2019

Social Sciences

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Policy experts play an important role in coping with the climate change–human migration nexus. They offer expert solutions to decision makers, and thus, they contribute to de-politicizing the issue. The aim of this paper is to find out how different policy experts envision the climate change–human migration nexus. The Netherlands has been nominated as the seat of a Global Center of Excellence for climate Adaptation and aims to become a Global Center of Excellence in the water safety and security domain. Policy experts were selected based on a structured nominee process. We conducted semistructured interviews with policy experts and analyzed policy expert documentation. Interview transcripts and documents were examined via a coding frame. Unlike policymakers who link climate change and conflict, policy experts stress the economic and political factors of migration in which climate change issues happen. The major difference between the view of policymakers and policy experts on the link between climate change and human migration emerges from the frame of the climate refugee. In the context of the climate change–human migration nexus, policy experts act as a countervailing power that prevents the political exploitation of the nexus into a security issue.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus

Ebrahimi

Ossewaarde

2019

Social Sciences

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“…The ability to move freely and easily. This is the umbrella term for movement and includes a spectrum of varying degrees of agency (e.g., forced displacement, migration, voluntary tourism) (Thornton et al, 2019;Warner, 2012).…”

Section: Mobilitymentioning

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Decision‐making factor interactions influencing climate migration: A systems‐based systematic review

Nabong

Hocking

Opdyke

et al. 2023

WIREs Climate Change

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Global migration and mobility dynamics are expected to shift in the coming decades as a result of climate change. However, the extent to which migration is caused by climate hazards, in contrast or addition to other intervening factors, is a point of debate in literature. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify and consolidate factors which directly and indirectly influence climate change migration. In our review of the literature, we found a total of 21 economic, environmental, demographic, political, social, and personal intervening decision‐making factors which affect climate migration. Causal interactions between these factors were identified using an axial qualitative coding technique called purposive text analysis. By combining causal links, a semi‐quantitative causal loop diagram was created that represented factor interaction and feedback within the “climate migration system.” Using this model, we highlight influential feedback loops and point to how intervention strategies may cause downstream effects. This research helps to address calls for a better understanding of the complex decision‐making dynamics in climate migration. In particular, results from our causal feedback loops show that intervention strategies targeted toward economic factors such as financial capital and livelihoods, as well as food security, would have the greatest impact in assisting climate‐affected communities. These results help inform climate migration policy and aid planners in the future to better understand the interconnected system of factors that lead to the emergent outcome of climate migration. This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Learning from Cases and Analogies The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Decision Making

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“…Finally, narratives of climate apocalypse, fear, and risk are ushering in a deeply problematic landscape of segregation, securitization, and redefinition of citizenship (Chaturvedi and Doyle, 2015; Davoudi, 2014). The issues of citizenship and migration in the era of climate change bring about questions of mobility and relocation (Adger et al., 2015; Thornton et al., 2019), refugee status and asylum (Berchin et al., 2017; Berglund, 2019), and increasing anti-immigration sentiment and militarization of borders (Dawson, 2017; Gupta, 2009; Turhan and Armiero, 2019). This means that citizenship and climate apartheid are linked through formal state recognition (or denial) of a set of rights and freedoms, especially as they relate to mobility and inclusion.…”

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Against climate apartheid: Confronting the persistent legacies of expendability for climate justice

Rice

Long

Levenda

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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While the uneven causes and impacts of climate change are widely known, it is also becoming evident that many elements of the response to the climate crisis are also reinforcing discrimination, segregation, and displacement among marginalized peoples. This is entrenching a system of climate apartheid, one that is evidenced by uneven vulnerabilities to the climate crisis, as well as inequitable implementation of climate-oriented infrastructures, policies, and programs. These efforts often secure privileged populations while harming, excluding, and criminalizing populations whose lives have been made precarious by climate change. Like previous incarnations of state-sponsored “separateness,” climate apartheid is rooted in processes of colonization, racial capitalism, and hetero-patriarchy that render some populations expendable. In this paper, we show how these interlocking historical structures of oppression facilitate a response to climate change that is systematically promoting spatial, socio-economic, and ecological segregation in many mainstream attempts to safeguard economic and socio-political structures amidst global ecological catastrophe. We then offer frameworks and interventions intended to introduce meaningful pathways forward for climate justice that seek to render all life indispensable.

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Human mobility and environmental change: a survey of perceptions and policy direction

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus

Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus

Decision‐making factor interactions influencing climate migration: A systems‐based systematic review

Against climate apartheid: Confronting the persistent legacies of expendability for climate justice

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