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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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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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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In 2015, more than a million refugees and migrants came to Europe during the so-called ‘migration crisis.’ This prompted a host of security-oriented responses to protect the EU’s external borders, spearheaded by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). While the number of irregular border crossings has decreased substantially ...
+ En lire plusLast summer, the Southern Mediterranean coast – and the Italian island of Lampedusa – gained significant media attention due to the arrival of numerous migrants on its shores. The Mediterranean Sea, seen as one of the most dangerous in the world, and Lampedusa are now recognized as Europe’s primary borders ...
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