The Global Compact on Migration: A Ray of Hope for Disaster-Displaced Persons

Kälin, Walter

doi:10.1093/ijrl/eey047

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“…However, when the disaster is caused by a severe interruption of livelihood induced by a slow-onset event, for instance, in the case of food insecurity caused by desertification, the decision to migrate predictably implies a subjective perception of the risks associated with the slow-onset event-generated disaster. In the mentioned cases, any decision to migrate would have perceptions of the risks of leaving and perceptions of the risks of staying as vital determinants for which perception of risk is subjective [57,58].…”

Section: Sudden-and Slow-onset Events: Contribution To Displacement Riskmentioning

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Nexus between Climate Change, Displacement and Conflict: Afghanistan Case

Přívara

Přívarová

2019

Sustainability

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The character, the motion and the proportion of environment-induced migration have radically changed in recent years. Environment-induced migration is an increasingly recognized fact and has become one of the main challenges of the 21st century, and needs to be focused on to ensure sustainable growth. This new stance is due to the changing character of environmental degradation. Global environmental issues, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, river and oceanic contamination, land degradation, drought, and the destruction of rainforests, are progressively stressing the earth’s ecosystems. Among these issues, climate change is one of the most severe threats. Climate change alone does not directly induce people to move but it generates harmful environmental effects and worsens present vulnerabilities. The current study aims to provide cornerstone links between the effects of climate change, migration decisions, displacement risk and conflicts in the example of Afghanistan, as a country that is extremely affected by both climate change and conflicts, and outline priority policy focuses to mitigate the current situation in the country.

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Section: Sudden-and Slow-onset Events: Contribution To Displacement Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nexus between Climate Change, Displacement and Conflict: Afghanistan Case

Přívara

Přívarová

2019

Sustainability

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“…The reason was that, given the binding nature of international refugee law, including climate change in the GCR could have been interpreted as creating new legal commitments for states, whereas no such risk exists in the case of the GCM (as global migration governance is characterised by its non-binding nature). Kälin (2019) nevertheless argues that the inclusion of this issue in the GCM is a breakthrough: at the international level, it had traditionally been discussed in negotiations over climate change, as one of the 'human consequences' of global warming, but discussions over migration had tended to downplay this issue (Gemenne 2011).…”

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Narrating an ideal migration world? An analysis of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

Pécoud

2020

Third World Quarterly

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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) was adopted in 2018 under the auspices of the United Nations. In a context in which the global governance of international migration remains weak, and in which states regularly confront migration/refugee crises, the GCM provides an internationally agreed-upon assessment of the political issues raised by international migration and identifies non-binding policy recommendations regarding how governments should address them. This article analyses the content of the GCM in light of the migration-related discussions at the international level since the 1990s. It critically examines its core arguments and argues that, because of the diverging worldviews and interests among governments and other stakeholders, the GCM is marked by major internal contradictions. This results in a depoliticised document and in a political language that hides the dilemmas raised by migration politics. There is therefore little consensus among states regarding the nature of migration and the political responses to govern the transnational mobility of people.

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“…Different perspectives and arguments of states on this issue also give great insight into how many critical issues on migration and displacement are in competing positions for agenda setting and prioritization. Kälin (2018) explains why the inclusion of this issue by the Global Compact has significant importance by stating:…”

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Global Policy on Migration

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Türkmen

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Global policy on migration can be defined as the creation of a more or less formal set of norms and rules in a framework of multi-level policymaking by public and private actors, which involves and transcends national, international, and transnational policy regimes, to regulate the movement of people across borders (Betts 2012). During the 1970s and the 1980s, the ICEM expanded beyond Europe with operations that included the resettlement of refugees from Bangladesh and Nepal to Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh War and Indo-Chinese resettlement in 1975. These activities were reflected in the 1980 rebranding of the ICEM as the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration and by the end of the decade, the IOM.

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The Global Compact on Migration: A Ray of Hope for Disaster-Displaced Persons

Cited by 31 publications

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Nexus between Climate Change, Displacement and Conflict: Afghanistan Case

Nexus between Climate Change, Displacement and Conflict: Afghanistan Case

Narrating an ideal migration world? An analysis of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

Global Policy on Migration

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