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Disentangling Migration and Climate Change

Methodologies, Political Discourses and Human Rights

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Faist

    1. Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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  2. Jeanette Schade

    1. , Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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  • Offers fresh methodological perspectives on the inter-relationship between climate change and migration
  • Presents up-to-date analysis of the "climate migrant" discourse
  • Focuses on planned relocation as a policy response to environmentally induced forced migration
  • Analyzes the scope and limits of human rights to protect people threatened by environmental change
  • Includes a critical reflection on the relationship between migration, capability and adaptation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Climate–Migration Nexus: A Reorientation

      • Thomas Faist, Jeanette Schade
      Pages 3-25

  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Entitlements, Capabilities and Human Rights

      • Jeanette Schade
      Pages 231-253

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 255-259
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This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate change vulnerability and the environmental push factor. The book establishes the interconnections between societal and environmental vulnerability, and migration and capability, allowing appreciation of migration in the frame of climate as a case of spatial and social mobility, that is, as a strategy of persons and groups to deal with a grossly unequal distribution of life chances across the world. In their introduction, the editors fan out the current debate and state the need to transcend predominantly policy-oriented approaches to migration. The first section of the volume focuses on “Methodologies and Methods” and presents very distinct approaches to think climate induced migration. Subsequent chapters explore the sensitivity of existing migration flows to climate change in Ghana and Bangladesh, the complex relationship between migration, demographic change and coping capacities in Canada, methodological challenges of a household survey on the significance of migration and remittances for adaptation in the Hindu Kush region and an econometric study of the aftermath of the 1998 floods in Bangladesh. The second part, “Areas of Concern: Politics and Human Rights”, deepens the analysis of discourses as well as of the implications of proposed and implemented policies. Contributors discuss such topics as environmental migration as a multi-causal problem, climate migration as a consequence in an alarmist discourse and climate migration as a solution. A study of an integrated relocation program in Papua New Guinea is followed by chapters on the promise and the flaws of planned relocation policy, global policy on protection of environmental migrants including both internallydisplaced peoples and those who cross international borders. A concluding chapter places human agency at centre stage and explores the interplay between human rights, capability and migration.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

    Thomas Faist

  • , Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

    Jeanette Schade

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