De Gruyter Handbook of Climate Migration and Climate Mobility Justice

Table of contents

1. Andreas Neef, Natasha Pauli, Bukola Salami Introduction: Climate Mobilities and Climate Mobility Justice in the Anthropocene
   1. 1 From Ancient Climate Migration to Contemporary Climate Im/mobilities and Future Climate Mobility Justice
   2. 2 Structure of the Handbook
   3. Acknowledgements
2. Part 1 The Climate-Migration Nexus: Concepts and Controversies
   1. Louis Everuss 1 Shifting from Climate Migration to Climate (Im)mobilities: Studying the Intersections between Climate Change and Human Movement
      1. 1.1 Introduction: Climate Migrations or Climate (Im)mobilities
      2. 1.2 The Limitations of ‘Climate Migration’ Research
      3. 1.3 Climate (Im)mobilities: The Missing Parts of the Climate Change and Movement Story
      4. 1.4 Conclusion: Establishing a Climate (Im)mobilities Framework
   2. Calum T. M. Nicholson, Ilan Kelman 2 Climate and Mobility: Challenges and Cautions for Research and Policy
   3. Aniseh Bro, Brandon Pludwinski, Luisa Veronis 3 The Decision to Stay: A Framework for Conceptualising Voluntary Immobilities
      1. 3.1 Introduction
      2. 3.2 Approaches to (Im)mobility and Decision-Making in Migration
      3. 3.3 Factors that Influence Migration Decisions
      4. 3.4 A Framework for the Role of Drivers and Perceptions in Migration Decision-Making
      5. 3.5 Miskito Communities on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast
      6. 3.6 Conclusion
   4. Niklas Mayer 4 Climate Change, Development Interventions and Migration: Exploring New Conceptual Frameworks
      1. 4.1 Introduction
      2. 4.2 The Migration-Development Nexus
      3. 4.3 Introducing a Climate-Sensitive Conceptual Framework
      4. 4.4 Conclusions
3. Part 2 Climate (Im)Mobility: Drivers and Decision-Making
   1. Denise Busan, Natasha Pauli, Sochanny Hak, Vidushi Patel, Renata Varea 5 A Finer-Scale Perspective on Climate ‘Micro-mobility’: Short-Distance Movements of People and Communities in Response to Climate Change
      1. 5.1 Introduction
      2. 5.2 Drawing together Research on Short-Distance Climate Mobility
      3. 5.3 Emerging Themes in Climate Micro-mobility
      4. 5.4 Conclusions
   2. Jonas Bergmann, Pablo Escribano, Kira Vinke 6 Migrating, Adapting in Place or Missing Options? A Systematic Review of Climate Change-Migration Links in Peru
      1. 6.1 Introduction
      2. 6.2 Methods and Data
      3. 6.3 Findings
      4. 6.4 Discussion: Identifying a Research Agenda
      5. 6.5 Conclusions: Shelter from the Storm
      6. Acknowledgements
   3. Miriam Afi Kosi, Felix Ankomah Asante 7 Local Perceptions of Environmental Change Risks and Adaptation Strategies: A Case Study of Bortianor in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana
      1. 7.1 Introduction
      2. 7.2 Literature and Theory
      3. 7.3 Materials and Methods
      4. 7.4 Results and Discussion
      5. 7.5 Conclusion and Recommendations
      6. Appendix
   4. Anita Latai-Niusulu 8 Pacific Island Mobility amid Climate Change and Other Environmental Challenges: The Case of Samoa
      1. 8.1 Introduction
      2. 8.2 The Climate Issue and its Implications for Islands
      3. 8.3 Conceptualising the Mobility of Pacific Islanders and Communities
      4. 8.4 Case Study: Climate Change, Other Environmental Challenges and Mobility in Samoa
      5. 8.5 Conclusion: Future Climate Change and Mobility in the Pacific
4. Part 3 Forced Displacement, Health Impacts of Im/mobility and Security Implications
   1. Adam Fraser 9 The Bikini Atoll Community: A Case Study in Displacement, Climate Change Vulnerability and (Im)mobility
      1. 9.1 Introduction
      2. 9.2 Methods
      3. 9.3 The Bikini Atoll community
      4. 9.4 Results of the Research
      5. 9.5 Conclusion
   2. Celia McMichael, Merewalesi Yee 10 Health Consequences of Climate Change for Migrants and Immobile Populations
      1. 10.1 Introduction
      2. 10.2 Climate-Migration-Health: A Case Study from Alaska
      3. 10.3 Climate Change and Human Migration
      4. 10.4 Climate-Mobility-Health: Focus on Fiji
      5. 10.5 Characterising the Climate-Migration-Health Nexus: Justice Dimensions
      6. 10.6 Policy Significance
      7. 10.7 Conclusion
   3. Lou Elena Bouey, Irit Katz 11 Spaces of Climate Mobilities: From the US-Mexico Border to Guatemala, and Back
      1. 11.1 Introduction: Climate, People, Space
      2. 11.2 Climate Borders: The Case of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez
      3. 11.3 (Re)tracing Pan-American Mobilities: Guatemala
      4. 11.4 Understanding the Spatial Context of Migrant Communities
      5. 11.5 Local Adaptation: Learning from Bottom-Up Processes in Origin Countries
      6. 11.6 Shifting Methodologies and Spatial Practices
      7. 11.7 Conclusion
5. Part 4 Representations of Climate Mobility in Media, Religion and Education
   1. Sarah M. Munoz 12 Eliciting Fear of Climate Change and ‘Others’: Representations of ‘Climate Refugees’ and ‘Environmental Migrants’ in American Media
      1. 12.1 Introduction
      2. 12.2 Why Are Media Representations of ‘Climate Refugees’ and ‘Environmental Migrants’ Important?
      3. 12.3 Methods for Investigating Media Representation
      4. 12.4 Results and Discussion
      5. 12.5 Conclusions
   2. Lore Van Praag, Loubna Ou-Salah 13 Introducing Religious and Spiritual Beliefs, Discourses and Solidarity to the Study of Climate-Induced Mobility
      1. 13.1 Introduction
      2. 13.2 Religious and Spiritual Beliefs on Climate Change: Domination vs Harmony
      3. 13.3 Religious Leaders and Community Representatives Calling for Climate Action
      4. 13.4 Religious and Spiritual Views, Solidarity and Climate-Induced Mobility
      5. 13.5 Conclusion
      6. Acknowledgements
   3. James Oleson 14 State Crime and Climate Justice: Employing a Dystopian Climate Migration Scenario in Postgraduate Teaching
      1. 14.1 Introduction
      2. 14.2 A Course on State Crime
      3. 14.3 Pedagogy
      4. 14.4 Student Analyses
      5. 14.5 Conclusion
6. Part 5 Intersectionalities of Climate Mobilities
   1. Laura Wilson, Andreas Neef 15 Women’s Experiences and Agency in the Gender and Climate Mobility Nexus
      1. 15.1 Introduction
      2. 15.2 The ‘Vulnerability Lens’ to Gender, Climate Change and Im/mobilities
      3. 15.3 Women’s Agency in the Context of Climate Change
      4. 15.4 An Intersectional Lens to the Gender and Climate Mobility Nexus
      5. 15.5 Conclusion
   2. Sarah Walker, Elena Giacomelli 16 No Country for Young Women and Men? Youth Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and (Im)mobility in Senegal
      1. 16.1 Introduction
      2. 16.2 A Hostile Environment for Youth
      3. 16.3 Methods
      4. 16.4 Mobility Justice and Ongoing Colonial Structure of Borders
      5. 16.5 Everyday Actions to Resist the Climate Crisis through Art and More
      6. 16.6 Conclusion
      7. Acknowledgements
   3. Olivia E. T. Yates, Shiloh Groot, Sam Manuela, Andreas Neef 17 “Owning the Reality of Renting the Skies”: Youth Climate Activism and Neighbourliness in the Context of Pacific Climate Mobility
      1. 17.1 Introduction
      2. 17.2 Colonialism and Climate Mobility
      3. 17.3 Climate Activism
      4. 17.4 The Present Study
      5. 17.5 Conclusion
7. Part 6 Legal and Ethical Considerations on Planned Relocation in the Context of Climate Change
   1. Rebecca Monson, Matthew Allen, Ruth Maetala, John Cox, David Oakeshott, Margaret Sandy, Kitchener Bird 18 Planning for Climate Mobility: Developing a Relational Approach to Planned Community Relocation in Solomon Islands
      1. 18.1 Introduction
      2. 18.2 Solomon Islands: Background, Context and Objectives
      3. 18.3 Global, Regional and National Policy Discourses and Frameworks Regarding Climate Migration
      4. 18.4 International Frameworks
      5. 18.5 Regional Approaches
      6. 18.6 Community Consultations
      7. 18.7 Drafting the Solomons Guidelines
      8. 18.8 Conclusion and Future Challenges
      9. Acknowledgements
   2. Vara Thuraisingham, Liam Moore, Andreas Neef 19 State-Led and Voluntary Climate-Related Relocations in Fiji: Policy, Practice and Protection Gaps
      1. 19.1 Introduction
      2. 19.2 International Standards of Protections for Internal Climate Mobilities
      3. 19.3 Fiji’s Internal Climate Mobility and Displacement Policies
      4. 19.4 The Practice of Relocation
      5. 19.5 When Policy Meets Practice—The Successes of, Gaps Within and Implementation Issues with Fiji’s Relocation Policies
      6. 19.6 Conclusion
   3. Justin See, Brooke Wilmsen, Emma Porio 20 Planned Relocation or In-Situ Management? Comparing the Justice Outcomes of Two State-Led Climate Change Adaptation Responses in the Philippines
      1. 20.1 Introduction
      2. 20.2 Case Studies
      3. 20.3 Discussion and Conclusion
   4. Amber Tharakan, Andreas Neef 21 Rising Tides, Subsiding Land: Evaluating the Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement Programme in Louisiana against Arnall’s Principles of Resettlement as Climate Adaptation
      1. 21.1 Introduction
      2. 21.2 Isle de Jean Charles
      3. 21.3 Resettlement Principles
      4. 21.4 Conclusion
8. Conclusion
   1. Andreas Neef, Mimi Sheller 22 Towards Climate Mobility Justice: From Climate Debt to Climate Reparations and a Welcoming Culture for Climate Migrants
      1. 22.1 Introduction
      2. 22.2 Anthropocene Mobilities
      3. 22.3 Narratives on Climate Migration
      4. 22.4 Climate Debt and Climate Reparations
      5. 22.5 Climate Mobility Justice: Creating a Hospitable Environment for Climate Migrants
      6. 22.6 Concluding Remark
9. Contributors