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Climate Migration: Critical Perspectives for Law, Policy, and Research

Climate Migration: Critical Perspectives for Law, Policy, and Research

Author: Calum Nicholson; Benoit Mayer
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509961788

Published In: March 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781509961740

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Carefully structured to navigate the reader through the issue of climate migration in a logical and rigorous manner, this book is the first to bring together key voices in order to examine systematically and critically why the problem exists, why its existence matters, and how lawyers, policy makers, and researchers might escape its long shadow.

At the heart of contemporary preoccupation with climate change is a concern for its societal impacts. Among these, its presumed effect on human migration has been perhaps the most politically resonant, regardless of whether that politics is oriented towards humanitarianism or national security. There is, however, a problem: climate migration remains a highly contested and ambiguous concept, with little consensus over what it means, what role it might serve if its meaning was known, or how either of these questions might ever be answered.

At a time in which both the effects of climate change, and the causes of migration, are of great public interest, and in which these interests are so often fraught with emotion and freighted with politics, the book brings dispassionately critical perspectives to an issue that desperately needs it.

Foreword, Betsy Hartmann (Hampshire College, USA)

Introduction, Calum TM Nicholson (Cambridge University, UK) and Benoit Mayer (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Part 1: Content

1. Conceptualizing 'Climate Migration', Calum TM Nicholson (Cambridge University, UK)

2. Climate Change-Disaster-Migration: Manufactural a Nexus, Ilan Kelman (University College London, UK)

3. Climate Migration'? Empirical Insights and Conceptual Cautions from Political Ecology and Migration Studies, Gunvor Jónsson (Office for National Statistics, UK)

Part 2: Context

4. The 'Others' in John Lanchester's The Wall, Gregory White (Smith College, USA)

5. Obstacles to Action on 'Climate Migration': A Story of Persistent Analytical and Political Ambiguity, David Durand-Delacre (UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Germany)

6. The View from the Fortress: European Governance Perspectives on Climate Change and Migration, Sarah Louise Nash (University for Continuity Education Krems, Austria)

7. Race, Migration, and Climate Change: A Cautionary Note, Andrew Baldwin (Durham University, UK)

Part 3: Implications for Research, Policy, and Law

8. Identifying as a 'Climate Migrant': Implications for Law, Policy, and Research, Carol Farbotko (Griffith University, Australia)

9. International Law, the Climate-Migration Nexus, and Teitiota v New Zealand, Giovanna Lauria (Court of Padua, Italy)

10. De-Conceptualizing 'Climate Migration', Benoit Mayer (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Conclusion, Calum TM Nicholson (Cambridge University, UK) and Benoit Mayer (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)