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Environment and Migration

Environment and Migration. Introduction. Why a class on environment and migration?. Environmental migrants often appear as the human faces of climate change Yet very little is known about the way people react to environmental changes

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Environment and Migration

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  1. Environment and Migration Introduction

  2. Why a class on environment and migration? • Environmental migrants oftenappear as the human faces of climate change • Yetverylittleisknown about the way people react to environmental changes • Thusmisconceptions and false assumptions tend to predominate • Policy options willneed to bedeveloped in the near future, and are alreadyunderway.

  3. Outline • Session 1 – Jan 20thPresentation of the seminar • Session 2 – Jan 27th Presentation of the State of Environmental Migration 2014 Historical context • Part I Empirical realities • Session 3 – Feb 3rdMigration and brutal disasters, from the Great Fire of London (1666) to the Fukushima accident (2011) • Session 4 – Feb 10thMigration and slow-onset events: sea-level rise, desertification, and deforestation. • Session 5 – Feb 17thDisplaced by the state: the case of resettlement. • Part II Tools and Methods • Session 6 – March 3rd Conceptualising the environment-migration nexus: methodological issues • Session 7 – March 10th Counting and mapping the migrants: quantitative issues.

  4. Part III Policy responses • Session 8 – March 17th Migration and adaptation to climate change. • Session 9 – March 24th Legal protection: migrants without status. • No session on March 31st • Session 10 – April 7th Discourses and representations Case-study is due • No session on April 14th • Session 11 – Date TBC Working session on the case-study reports • Session 12 – Date TBC Conclusion: A specific category of migrants? Politicisation of an empirical reality.

  5. Practical organisation • Specificreadings and slideswillbeposted on www.gemenne.wordpress.com • Your active participation isvery important • If youneed to reach me: • 06 50 51 69 99 • Francois.Gemenne@sciencespo.fr

  6. Evaluation • Active participation: 25% • Case-study: 75% • You need to describeongoing migration dynamicsassociatedwithenvironmentaldegradation in a specificregion • Interview scholars and policy-makers • Use as muchempirical data as youcan • Formulatepolicyrecommendations

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