Protection Gaps

Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena; Loescher, Gil; Long, Katy; Sigona, Nando; Türk, Volker; Dowd, Rebecca

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199652433.013.0024

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“…Before making this argument, however, it is worth noting why the idea of a normative status for climate refugees appears attractive, at least at first glance. The motivation behind the proposal is that it appears well-equipped to address what is sometimes called, in the parlance of international legal and humanitarian practice, a “protection gap” (Türk and Dowd, 2014) in relation to climate displacement. A protection gap refers to the idea that existing legal frameworks fail to offer protection to some people who have justified claims to protection.…”

Section: The Monist Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change and displacement: Towards a pluralist approach

Draper

2022

European Journal of Political Theory

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This paper sets out a research agenda for a political theory of climate displacement, by critically examining one prominent proposal—the idea of a normative status for ‘climate refugees’—and by proposing an alternative. Drawing on empirical work on climate displacement, I show that the concept of the climate refugee obscures the complexity and heterogeneity of climate displacement. I argue that, because of this complexity and heterogeneity, approaches to climate displacement that put the concept of the climate refugee at their centre will fail to treat like cases alike and relevantly different cases differently. In response to these failings, I outline an alternative—the pluralist theory of climate displacement—which confronts the specific challenges that climate displacement poses in different practical and institutional contexts, whilst also treating climate displacement as a unified phenomenon at the second-order level of burden-sharing.

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Section: The Monist Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%