Towards a Definition of Climate Migration


Abstract


Within the present contribution, the origin and development of the debate on defining and estimating migrations driven by environmental and climatic causes will be traced. The analysis of this discourse allows an understanding of the perspective through which the figure of the climate migrant has been constructed. Simultaneously, by revisiting this debate, an examination is intended to explore how this type of human mobility urges a reconsideration of traditionally employed categories for describing and classifying migrations.

DOI Code: 10.1285/i20356609v17i1p266

Keywords: Migration; Climate Migrant; Human Mobility

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