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Migration in the UNFCCC workstream on loss and damage: an assessment of alternative framings and conceivable responses

Mayer, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0669-7457 (2017) Migration in the UNFCCC workstream on loss and damage: an assessment of alternative framings and conceivable responses. Transnational Environmental Law, 6 (1). pp. 107-129. ISSN 2047-1033

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1017/S2047102516000078

Abstract/Summary

Discourses on ‘climate migration’ have played an instrumental role in initiating negotiations on loss and damage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Yet, to date, the framing of climate migration has not been clear: it has been considered as a tool for reducing loss and damage (hence essentially a form of adaptation) or, alternatively, as a source of loss and damage for the migrants or for other concerned communities. Moreover, proposed approaches to address climate migration as a form of loss and damage have extended beyond compensation, and remain controversial among developed nations. In the highly politicized field of migration governance, however, this article submits that policy support and guidance in addressing loss and damage could prompt dangerous forms of political interference, such as the imposition of a Western objective of containing migrants to the Global South. It is thus suggested that top-down migration policies may not help vulnerable nations who face loss and damage in the context of climate migration.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
ID Code:119410
Publisher:Cambridge University Press

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