Climate Refugees

Dr Simon Behrman is an associate professor at the School of Law, University of Warwick. He has published widely in the fields of asylum and immigration. He is the author of Law and Asylum: Space, Subject, Resistance (2018), and co-author of Facilitating the Resettlement and Rights of Climate Refugees (2018). Dr Avidan Kent is an associate professor in International Law at the University of East Anglia. Avidan has published widely on a varied list of topics, including climate-induced migration, international environmental law, public participation, international courts, and international economic law (mostly investment law and WTO law).

1. Introduction: An imaginary interview with the editors Avidan Kent and Simon Behrman; 2. Weaving a coherent web of policy and action for the protection of disaster displaced persons: Climate change action, disaster risk reduction and human mobility Secretariat of the Platform on Disaster Displacement; 3. Perspectives from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) – Breaking new ground on the governance of climate migration Mariam Traore Chazalnoel and Dina Lonesco; 4. Global governance of climate migrants: A critical evaluation of the global compacts Jolanda van der Vliet and Frank Biermann; 5. Lessons from the past/Momentum going forward: Norm dynamics and the process of protection for climate-induced migration and displacement Elin Jakobsson; 6. Collective action, common concern and climate-induced migration Elisa Fornalé; 7. Migrating with dignity: protecting the rights of 'Climate refugees' with the non-refoulement principle Sumudu Atapattu; 8. Climate displacement and the right to mental health Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and Melina Antoniadis; 9. Climate migration and its inclusion in Mexican legal and political frameworks Beatriz Felipe Pérez; 10. Integrating climate-induced mobility in climate and migration policies in Brazil: challenges and ways forward Diogo Andreola Serraglio, Fernanda de Salles Cavedon-Capdeville and Aline Burni; 11. Climate displacement and community-led solutions: perspectives from the Asia Pacific region Ezekiel Simperingham; 12. 'Climate-displaced people' – A small island developing states perspective Angelique Pouponneau; 13. Any port in a storm? Climate, mobility and choice in Pacific small island developing states Robert Oakes, Kees van der Geest and Cosmin Corendea; 14. The role of environmental disasters in asylum cases: Do German courts take disasters into account? Camilla Schloss; 15. Building governance resiliency: Lessons from the United States Tyler Giannini and Ayoung Kim; 16. Environmental justice and climate-induced migration Francesca Rosignoli; 17. Coping with climate change: a critical review of the link between the human rights system and climate displacement Khaled Hassine; 18. The IOM as a 'UN-related' organisation, and the potential consequences for people displaced by climate change Miriam Cullen; 19. Climate refugees: Is litigation an effective strategy? Avidan Kent and Simon Behrman.