Identifying as a ‘Climate Migrant’: Implications for Law, Policy, and Research
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Many cases of human mobility are now reported on and discussed as a consequence of climate change, regardless of whether climate change has, technically, caused the mobility in question. Headlines such as ‘[c]limate disasters “caused more internal displacement than war” in 2020’ and ‘“[i]ntolerable tide” of people displaced by climate change’ are commonplace. Beyond the issue of contested accuracy underscored by lack of scientific causality establishing ‘climate mobility’ as an empirically observable phenomenon is another important issue: that ‘climate mobilities’ (particularly the more politically charged and publicly discussed variants ‘climate migration’ and ‘climate refugee’) exist as socially significant concepts—ideas that have general currency and circulate in and across public policy, in news media, and in science itself.
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Climate Migration: Critical Perspectives for Law, Policy and Research
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Migration
Human impacts of climate change and human adaptation
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Farbotko, C, Identifying as a ‘Climate Migrant’: Implications for Law, Policy, and Research, Climate Migration: Critical Perspectives for Law, Policy and Research, 2023, pp. 171-183