Climate refugees
A useful concept? Towards an alternative vocabulary of ecological displacement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6353003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lydia Ayame Hiraide (0000-0001-8527-2248) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-282 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02633957221077257 |
| OpenAlex | W4210986508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 47 |
Against the background of climate scepticism and raging anti-immigrant sentiments across Europe, the politics of climate change and the politics of migration are fraught with tension. The two converge over discussions about ‘climate refugees’. But what merit does the term ‘climate refugee’ have, and are there potential problems associated with it? This article pays attention to how racialised discourses underwrite the concept of climate refugees in ways that further exclude already marginalised populations. In place of ‘climate refugees’, it proposes ‘ecological displacement’ as a notion which stresses how and why people are displaced within or across borders. While, indeed, anthropogenic climate change is a real threat to the livelihoods of humans (among other species), it is not the only environmental driver of displacement. By using the term ‘ecology’, this article argues that we allow for a description which encompasses other potential displacement drivers beyond climate change, such as volcanic eruptions, landslides, and political violence. Citing ‘displacement’ makes the term available to populations who are displaced by damaged ecologies both within and across borders, in and outside of Europe. The notion of ‘ecological displacement’ and ‘ecologically displaced people’ tries to rehumanise those carrying the heaviest social and climate burdens on a burning planet
Agriculture · Climate change · Climate justice · Displaced person · Displacement (psychology · Environmental ethics · Forced migration · Geography · Global warming · Immigration · Livelihood · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Ecology
Beyond reactive displacement
"Living in limbo"
Climate Migration on the Southern Border
Humanitarian aid and the everyday invisibility of climate-related migration from Central America
Climate Displacement and the European Refugee ‘Crisis’ Narrative
Justiça informacional e justiça climática para refugiados climáticos em tempos de Antropoceno
Contesting crisis narratives amidst climatic breakdown
Circularity of violence and institutionalisation
Climate crisis and human migration
Millions of climate refugees are coming!’ A critical media discourse analysis on climate change-induced migrants in Flemish press
Adaptation in the Plantationocene
From threat to justice
The European Union's Governmentality of Climate‐Induced Migration
Climate Refugees in the Focus of International Policy
Ecological displacement and structural injustice
Contesting clusters
Race and climate change
On the Term “Environmental Refugee
Climate-health risk (In)visibility in the context of everyday humanitarian practice
Anticipatory ruination
Societies’ hostility, anger and mistrust towards Migrants
Climate Change and Migration
Humanness and Dehumanization
Migration and Climate Change
Rethinking climate refugees and climate conflict
Environmental Mobility in a Polarized World
Human Rights and Assigned Duties
Climate change and the far right
Linking climate change, environmental degradation, and migration
Climate change and migration in the UK news media
On the history of the international protection of refugees
Preparing for a Warmer World
Climate change refugees
Environmental Refugees
The physical side of linguistic violence
Climate change and involuntary migration
How Human Rights Generate Duties to Protect and Provide
Environmental Refugees? Classifying Human Migrations Caused by Environmental Change
Sources of Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe
Minería, género y cultura. Una aproximación etnográfica a espacios de esparcimiento y diversión masculina en el norte de Chile
Climate change and forced migrations
The European Tradition of Asylum and the Development of Refugee Law
The geography of anti-immigrant attitudes across Europe, 2002–2014
Resources, Group Conflict and Symbols
The ascent of man
Perilous Journeys
Of Animals and Objects
Not yet human
The first climate refugees? Contesting global narratives of climate change in Tuvalu
Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
Orientalising environmental citizenship
Racialisation and the Figure of the Climate-Change Migrant
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
Cultural Violence
Perspectives on Africa
Give Me Shelter from the Storm
Dehumanizing representations of women
The Politics of Austerity and the Affective Economy of Hostility
Is it cultural racism? Discursive exclusion and oppression of migrants in the Netherlands
The humanism of reconstruction
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |