Should Climate Migrants be recognised under international and national laws?
A list of academic resources put together by Jake Romm. Jake is a 2020 graduate of Penn Law. He is currently a legal fellow at Reprieve US where he primarily works on issues relating to Guantanamo Bay.
There currently exists significant support in the academic community for the idea that climate migrants should be recognized under international and national laws. Below is a list, by no means exhaustive, of articles supporting the proposition:
1. Heather Alexander & Jonathan Simon, Unable to Return in the 1951 Refugee Convention: Stateless Refugees and Climate Change, 26 Fla. J. Int’l L. 531 (2014).
2. Stellina Jolly & Nafees Ahmad, Climate Refugees under International Climate Law and International Refugee Law: Towards Addressing the Protection Gaps and Exploring the Legal Alternatives for Criminal Justice 14 ISIL Y.B. Int’l Human. & Refugee L. 216 (2014-2015).
3. Rana Balesh, Submerging Islands: Tuvalu and Kiribati as Case Studies Illustrating the Need for a Climate Refugee Treaty, 5 Earth Jurisprudence & Envtl. Just. J. 78 (2015).
4. Robert McLeman, Climate Change Migration, Refugee Protection, and Adaptive Capacity-Building, 4 McGill Int’l J. Sust. Dev. L. & Pol’y 1 (2008).
5. Susan F. Martin, New Models of International Agreement for Refugee Protection, 4 J. on Migration & Hum. Sec. 60 (2016).
6. Lauren Nishimura, Climate Change Migrants: Impediments to a Protection Framework and the Need to Incorporate Migration into Climate Change Adaptation Strategies, 27 Int’l J. Refugee L. 107 (2015).
7. Katrina Miriam Wyman, Responses to Climate Migration, 37 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 167 (2013).
8. Carmen G. Gonzalez, Climate Justice and Climate Displacement: Evaluating the Emerging Legal and Policy Responses, 36 Wis. Int’l L.J. 366 (2019).
9. Marta Picchi, Climate Change and the Protection of Human Rights: The Issue of Climate Refugees, 13 US-China L. Rev. 576 (2016).
10. Robert McLeman, Climate Change Migration, Refugee Protection, and Adaptive Capacity-Building, 4 McGILL INT’L J. SusT. DEV. L. & POL’Y 1, 13 (2008).
11. Bonnie Docherty & Tyler Giannini, Confronting a Rising Tide: A Proposal for a Convention on Climate Change Refugees, 33 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 349 (2009).
12. Claire DeWitte, At Water’s Edge: Legal Protections and Funding for a New Generation of Climate Change Refugees, 16 Ocean & Coastal L.J. 211, (2010).
13. Brianne Compton, The Rising Tide of Environmental Migrants: Our National Responsibilities, 25 COLO. NAT. RESOURCES, ENERGY & ENvTL. L. REV. 357 (2014).
14. Sireesha Chirala, Acclimating to Climate Change: Filling the International Policy Voidfor Environmentally Displaced People, 35 HOUS. J. INT’L L. 359, 379-80 (2013).
15. Ilona Millar, There’s No Place Like Home: Human Displacement and Climate Change, 14 AUSTL. INT’L L. J. 71, 79 (2007)
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