20.02.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration))
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Cyprien Fluzin
Refugee lawyers have long contested the popular use of the term “climate refugee.” What could seem like legal nitpicking has the merit of highlighting major differences in legal categories. It also reveals international law’s current inability to offer adequate systematic solutions to forced cross-border displacement caused by climate change. Nonetheless,
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08.02.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration))
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Mrittika Bhattacharya
In Sundarban, India, my conversation with a Bangladeshi woman challenged the common perceptions surrounding environment-induced mobilities, since she cited insufficient income as the primary reason behind moving with her family. This made me look beyond the “obvious” during a six-month exploration using Feminist Participatory Action Research, revealing the interplay between
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31.01.2024 , in ((Climate-Induced Migration))
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Sargam Goundar
Pacific Island countries have globally been at the forefront of research, media, and policy discussions on climate mobility. These island nations have been predominantly categorized as “climate migrant-sending countries” – particularly so in Europe, where media and Western scholarship have painted an overly simplistic picture in which “all Pacific Islands
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15.12.2020 , in ((Migration and Mobility in 2050))
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Salomon Bennour
In 2050, how will we see our past mobility amid a climate disaster? One day, the tragic consequences of climate change may make us wonder about our past mobility, which seemed limitless. When the natural laws hit back, Northern Europe might become more of an El-Dorado than the Bahamas are
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11.12.2020 , in ((Migration and Mobility in 2050))
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Marco Bitschnau
It is human nature to imagine a future much different from the present, but the excess of this trait can also easily lead us astray. And while we may indeed reappraise the current mobilities and immobilities against the backdrop of climate change, we should be careful not to raise our
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