Climate Change and Palestinian Refugees

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Lebanon faces great changes if average temperatures rise 2-4 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years, as most climate change models forecast. cheepest generic viagra Wael Hmaidan, executive director of IndyACT, The League of Independent Activists says climate change in the Middle East will […]

Defining Environmental Migrants as "Survival Migrants"?

In a recently published report, two academics from Oxford University have come up with the term “survival migrants” to accommodate groups who do not fall within the legal refugee definition in the 1951 Refugee Convention. Dr. Alexander Betts and his co-author Esra Kaytaz say that “survival migrants” are described as “forced migrants who are not […]

“Climigration” – A New Term on the Block

Climate Change + Migration = Climigration Amidst the ongoing definitional debate over people who are forced to leave their homes due to the creeping effects of climate change, a new term has surfaced in the past few weeks to describe the situation in which this is happening. Robin Bronen, an Alaskan human rights attorney and […]

The Ongoing Definitional Debate

Environmental refugees, climate refugees, environmental migrants, environmentally displaced people – these are just some of the names that have been given by the general public, media, and experts alike to describe people forced to leave their homes when their livelihoods and safety are jeopardized from the sudden and creeping effects of climate change. Let’s take […]

Two Milestones in the Push for Recognition

At the end of last year, the two-year long Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios research project (EACH-FOR) reached its destination, concluding its 22 case studies in various countries around the world. Funded primarily by the European Commission, the EACH-FOR project aimed to investigate and measure the causes of forced migration in relation to environmental […]

A Plea From the Pacific Nation of Tuvalu

Last year, I attended a “Make Poverty History” event put on by Oxfam in Sydney, Australia. During the event, I had the opportunity to meet a resident of Tuvalu, which is series of low lying coral atolls and home to about 12,000 people. Flown in all the way from her small South Pacific nation, she […]