Climate change, migration and human rights

Manou, Dimitra; Mihr, Anja

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“…This has clearly been seen in the formal adoption of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement by the UN in 1998, which, while lacking the legal force of the UN refugee convention, established a set of international norms for states to respond to internal displacement. More recently, there have been active debates about whether and how a similar approach should be adopted to provide protection for those forced to move by climate change (Bettini 2013, Manou et al 2017cf. Boas and Wiegel, Chapter 7).…”

Section: Delimiting Forced and Voluntary Migrationmentioning

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Unsettling the boundaries between forced and voluntary migration

Bakewell¹

2021

Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration

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This chapter critically examines the divide between forced and voluntary migration, exploring the relationship between the formal definitions elaborated in policy and legal frameworks, the academic approaches and the way the terms are used in everyday public discussion. It argues that the boundaries between forced and voluntary migration are inherently blurred and questions their analytical value. Nonetheless, when it comes to policy and practice, lines are routinely drawn to separate forced from voluntary migrants, with lifechanging, sometimes life-threatening consequences for individual migrants and their families. The chapter focuses on three broad ways in which categorisation as forced or voluntary migration shapes outcomes for migrants: their access to basic rights and resources; the social and political attitudes of the people among whom they settle; and, their social trajectory that casts them as potential future citizens or marks them out as strangers for life.

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Section: Delimiting Forced and Voluntary Migrationmentioning

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Unsettling the boundaries between forced and voluntary migration

Bakewell¹

2021

Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration

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“…A substantial body of legal scholarship has emerged in recent years, which addresses the international legal context of climate change (McAdam ), multi‐level governance (Cournil and Vlassopoulos ) and, more recently, the human rights dimensions of the climate change–migration nexus (Manou et al . ). And, similarly, geographers are very much at the forefront of the academic and policy debate on climate change and migration (McLeman ; Baldwin and Bettini ).…”

Section: Towards a Legal Geography Of Climate Change And Migrationmentioning

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Adaptive migration: pluralising the debate on climate change and migration

Baldwin

Fornalé

2017

Geographical Journal

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The interaction between environmental change and human mobility is attracting global attention, both in policy circles and in the contemporary literature. This introductory essay proposes using the concept of pluralism to explore the multi‐dimensional relationship between climate change and migration and to advance new perspectives and concepts to interpret the emerging theory of adaptive migration. The papers included in this themed section cover diverse issues in this area of research by focusing on the contemporary debate about the ‘migration‐as‐adaptation strategy’. The papers address six key areas: the role of law in dealing with climate‐induced migration, the category of place related to the community of origin and destination, the theme of climate justice and rights, the contribution of international organisations in framing the migration‐as‐adaptation strategy, adaptive measures developed in the Maldives, and seasonal nomadism in the East Sudan. All are quite different, but all converge in their emphasis on the role of the individual, the migrant, and on whether and how state responses are adequate in the progressive concordance between adaptation and individual capability. This introduction raises a set of salient questions that might catalyse multiple new research trajectories over the coming years.

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“…Climate injustice and unequal vulnerabilities across global, regional, and local scales thereby risk being silenced (Bettini, 2017;Baldwin and Fornalé, 2017). Instead, critical scholars argue that environmental migration is best approached through the lens of environmental or climate justice (Bettini et al, 2017), human rights (e.g., Manou et al, 2017), or mobility justice (Sheller, 2018).…”

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Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal’s development sector

Lietaer

Durand-Delacre

2021

Environmental Science & Policy

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Academic and policy domains are increasingly constructing 'migration as adaptation' as a policy ideal against alarmist, security-oriented approaches to the climate-migration nexus. However, our knowledge of how development actors in national contexts view and use migration as adaptation in practice remains limited. Based on 90 interviews with development stakeholders, this paper demonstrates the limited reach of the migration as adaptation policy ideal in Senegal's development sector. It is considered too vague a concept to operationalise and is in tension with the wider discursive context on migration and development, marked by sedentary bias which requires 'addressing the root causes of migration', including environmental change, to 'fix populations in place'. A dominant discourse accommodates sedentary bias. It allows for a narrow application of migration as adaptation through 'return migration' and 'diaspora mobilisation' projects. These target only existing migrants, avoiding new mobility solutions. A minority counter-discourse rejects sedentary bias, emphasising freedom of movement.

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Climate change, migration and human rights

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Unsettling the boundaries between forced and voluntary migration

Unsettling the boundaries between forced and voluntary migration

Adaptive migration: pluralising the debate on climate change and migration

Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal’s development sector

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