Additional Resources

Interested to learn more about this week’s topic? We have selected some materials for you. These resources consist of introductory information, in-depth texts, case studies and challenging counter perspectives.

Introductions and definitions:

• Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change, Dina Ionesco, Mariam Traore Chazalnoel (IOM, 2015)
• 5 facts on climate migrants, United Nations University: Institute for Environment and Human Security (2015)
• Defining ‘environmental migration’, François Gemenne, Forced Migration Review, vol. 31 (2008)
• Climate Change and Migration: Myths and Realities, Caroline Zickgraf, Green European Journal (2020).

Relevant Research:

• COVID-19, Climate Change and Migration: Constructing Crises, Reinforcing Borders, Elodie Hut, Caroline Zickgraf, Francois Gemenne, Tatiana Castillo Betancourt, Pierre Ozer, Céline Le Flour (Environmental Migration Portal, 2020)

Additional Contexts:

• In Black and White: How Climate Change Is Affecting Iran, Pulitzer Center (2018)
• Pelenise Alofa and Climate Change Migration, CMSOnAir
• How Climate Change Is Fuelling the U.S. Border Crisis, Jonathan Blitzer for The New Yorker(2019)

Other Perspectives:

• New Report Says Climate Change Could Force Millions to Move Within Their Countries, Worldbank (2018)
• To Prevent The Worst Of Climate Change, Open The Borders, Drew Pendergrass (Harvard Political Review, 2019)