‘Climate Refugees’ as Dawning Catastrophe? A Critique of the Dominant Quest for Numbers

Jakobeit, Cord; Methmann, Chris

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1_16

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“…And finally, in 1995, Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent (1995) published their seminal study entitled Environmental Exodus, which argued that by 2050, there could be almost 200 million environmental refugees. In the ensuing years, this number was referenced in a range of publications on the issue, and even today it is regularly cited as an unquestioned fact (for an overview see Jakobeit and Methmann 2012). In contrast to previous decades, the environmental migration agenda had returned in full force, although this time it was no longer dominated by migration research but by environmentalists.…”

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Securitizing ‘climate refugees’: the futurology of climate-induced migration

Baldwin

Methmann

Rothe

2014

Critical Studies on Security

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Securitizing ‘climate refugees’: the futurology of climate-induced migration

Baldwin

Methmann

Rothe

2014

Critical Studies on Security

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“…Jakobeit and Methmann (2012) have shown that estimates of several hundred millions of refugees are speculative and exaggerated. They compared several reports published in recent years and showed how they disagree on numbers.…”

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Linking climate-induced migration and security within the EU: insights from the securitization debate

Trombetta

2014

Critical Studies on Security

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“…As such climate migrants are not graspable, measurable or representable for the institutions of the state (Baldwin 2013(Baldwin , 1483(Baldwin -1486. This is one reason for the relentless 'quest for numbers' (Jakobeit and Methmann 2012) that characterizes the political and scientific discourse on CIM.…”

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“…The burgeoning literature on CIM is united by the insight that CIM is very hard if not impossible to grasp (Reuveny 2007;Gemenne 2011;Jakobeit and Methmann 2012). Nonetheless, newspapers, research reports, photo exhibitions or documentaries visualize CIM.…”

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