FMR 49 - From the Editors
An introductory note on FMR 49, 'Disasters and displacement in a changing climate', from the Editors.
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In light of the projected increase in the frequency and intensity of disasters associated with climate change, the number of people displaced in the context of disasters will inevitably rise...
An introductory note on FMR 49, 'Disasters and displacement in a changing climate', from the Editors.
In order to make progress on disasters, climate change and human mobility, it is essential to bring together different strands of the discus...
The Nansen Initiative consultative process has identified a toolbox of potential policy options to prevent, prepare for and respond to the c...
In order to avoid displacement when possible, displacement and human mobility issues need to be better integrated within national and region...
Researchers have much to do, not only to understand climate- and disaster-induced migration but also to transmit their understanding for the...
A movement of people is rarely explained by environmental or climatic factors alone. Therefore an analysis which does not take into consider...
The key to successfully addressing the challenges of environmental, climatic and natural disasters is integrating migration concerns – inclu...
West Africa has a very mobile population and high vulnerability to natural hazards. It also, however, has a number of regional cooperation a...
The impact of climate change induces systemic patterns of socio-economic erosion that also affect the dynamics of disaster displacement and...
Formalised temporary protection arrangements in Africa could significantly improve access to territory and human rights for people displaced...
Oman and Mongolia reflect the modern climatic and social challenges to mobile pastoral livelihoods.
The international community has been slow to develop climate change-specific instruments to guide the relocation process beyond those that r...
Preparing for planned relocation
Placing contemporary deliberations about relocation within a longer historical and intellectual framework reveals unexpected connections and...
Post-disaster resettlement programmes can be unsuitable and ineffective, often exacerbating the vulnerability of people to the effects of cl...
Global attention should place a primary focus on the application of best practice and the development of innovative initiatives to solve cli...
Brazil is developing a long-term solution for filling a legislative gap affecting environmental migrants.
There is a startling range of positive examples of national law, policy and practice all across the Americas that states have used to respon...
Predictable measures are needed to provide protection for people displaced across borders by disasters, where there is currently a gap.
How can the category of ‘climate refugee’ be considered within international law in the 21st century?
Climate change mitigation policies and ‘green solutions’, such as biofuels, are also creating displacement.
Stateless people and migrants are at greater risk of displacement and are less likely to receive assistance; in turn, environmental displace...
Strategic litigation to protect individuals at risk can usefully support higher-level protection initiatives.
Residents’ strategies are generally aimed at either protection from or adaptation to flooding. Large-scale migration from the floodplains of...
The Philippine government’s ‘One Safe Future’ programme relocated disaster-affected poor families in areas where structures enabling opportu...
Experience in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan suggests that resettlement as a strategy for mitigating disaster-induced displacement...
The ‘migration with dignity’ policy is part of Kiribati’s long-term nation-wide relocation strategy.
The adaptive characteristics of customary land systems deserve greater recognition in disaster or climate change policy frameworks.
Focusing on climate-induced migration, rather than mitigation, can be at odds with grassroots demands and can make the future uninhabitabili...
The voices of scientists, academics, politicians and development practitioners dominate the climate change debate, yet local knowledge, valu...
Voluntary adaptive migration across int'l borders will be a critical component of an overall adaptation strategy for at-risk individuals and...
Communities can strengthen their resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction measures...
Sea-level rise threatens communities of the Lakshadweep islands. But what happens when belongingness, religious beliefs and the identity of...
A starting point for adapting to longer-term climate change could be adaptation to short-term climate variability and extreme events. Making...
Many climate change-affected communities have already been using migration as a means to adapt to and withstand the challenges to their live...
The concept of ‘environmental refugees’, or ‘climate refugees’, has been progressively abandoned, as having no legal basis. I want to argue...
The Nansen Initiative has highlighted significant questions about how the international community should collectively think about displaceme...
Tribes in coastal Alaska and Louisiana in the United States are among the communities at immediate risk of displacement due to climate chang...
The 30th anniversary of the 1984 Cartagena Declaration offers the opportunity to consider the achievements of the Cartagena process and the...
Trafficking of people for their organs is an emerging transnational crime that has failed to receive sufficient international attention.
Among refugees in Jordan, utter boredom – the result of restrictions on mobility, prohibitions on employment, and feelings of marginalisatio...
Distrust between refugees and their state of origin must be given due consideration in institutional approaches to repatriation of refugees,...
Harm to animals resulting from forced migration of people is intricately interwoven with and contingent upon the simultaneous suffering of h...
An introductory note from the Editors of a special mini-feature on 'FGM and Asylum in Europe' in FMR 49.
With some 71% of female EU asylum applicants from FGM-practising countries estimated to be survivors of this harmful traditional practice, i...
Asylum authorities in the European Union need to establish better procedures to help address the specific vulnerabilities and protection nee...
The ‘medicalisation’ of female genital mutilation should be denounced on two counts.Firstly, it is usually anatomically more damaging and, s...
The new Istanbul Convention provides a powerful tool for more effectively guaranteeing the protection of asylum seekers at risk of gender-ba...
Former refugee women are now working as professional educators among immigrant and refugee communities in Finland to tackle ignorance of the...