Part 1 The Climate-Migration Nexus: Concepts and Controversies
1 Shifting from Climate Migration to Climate (Im)mobilities: Studying the Intersections between Climate Change and Human Movement
Abstract
The human experience of climate change is commonly conceptualised through the lens of forced migration. Researchers, governments and non-governmental organisations have sought to identify how climate change will cause mass displacements and create new refugee populations. However, this line of ‘climate migration’ analysis is coming under criticism for its narrow interpretation of the complex intersections between climate change and human movement, and for upholding the problematic assumption that humans exist in a natural ...
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