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Climatic and Environmental Factors Matter for Internal European Net Migration: A Panel Regression Analysis of 19 European Countries from 2004 to 2019
This study explores the connections between climatic and environmental factors and internal net migration in Europe, addressing a topic that has received growing political, academic, and public interest. Previous research has focused mainly on the Global South or on international migration in the Mediterranean region, but…
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Climate-Induced Migration: A Growing Concern for Global Food Security and Nutrition
Climate-induced migration has emerged as a critical challenge to global food security and nutrition, particularly in regions with fragile agricultural systems and limited adaptive capacity, and this review synthesizes recent evidence on the interconnections between climate change, migration, and food insecurity, focusing on the pathways through…
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Safeguard Intangible Cultural Heritage
Proposal: Reclaiming Living Heritage for Community Resilience and Adaptation in Europe Implementation: 2026 to 2030 Call: HORIZON-CL2-2025-02-TWO-STAGE – Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society – 2025 – Two-stage Type of Action: HORIZON-RIA – HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Keywords: Social issues, lifestyle migration, unsustainable tourism, community displacement,…
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Digital Transformation & Social Inclusion
Proposal: Reinventing Opportunities to Overcome underachievemenT in Stem Implementation: 2026 to 2029 Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-FORWARD – FORWARD-LOOKING PROJECTS Type of Action: ERASMUS-LS – ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants Proposed Budget: 720 872,16€ Keywords: equality, diversity, inclusion, education, innovation, stem, equal opportunities, non discrimination, equity, gender equality, disability, migration,…
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On Propaganda
Proposal: On Propaganda – from the past to the present Implementation: 2026 TO 2028 Call: CERV-2025-CITIZENS-REM – European Remembrance – 2025 Type of Action: CERV-LS – CERV Lump Sum Grants Proposed Budget: 253 695,00€ Keywords: Populism, Democracy, Fake-news, Human rights, Civil society, Extremism, defence of fundamental…
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Evidence of Climate and Economic Drivers Affecting Migration in an Unequal and Warming World
Climate conditions, in complex interrelations with other socioenvironmental, economic, political and cultural factors, significantly play a key role in shaping population density and movement. But these dynamics remain poorly understood. This study examines how climate conditions, together with socioenvironmental, economic, political, and cultural factors, shape international…
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Vulnerabilities of Climate Change-Induced Displacement and Migration in South Asia
South Asian countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change, a region particularly vulnerable to climate hazards, and where people rely heavily on livelihoods sensitive to the environment, such as agriculture or fishing, which can constantly lead to a risk in the decline of living standards. As…
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Climate-Induced Migration and Climate Immobility in Ghana: A Socio-Ecological Mixed Method Study
The drivers of climate-induced migration and climate immobility among rural and peri-urban residents in northern and Upper East Ghana are investigated in this paper, where climate stressors such as flooding, extreme heat, windstorms, and drought create both voluntary and involuntary mobility, as well as situations of…
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Global Climate Migration is a Story of Who and not Just How Many
Understanding the impact of climate change on human migration is critical for policymakers, but it can both incentivize people to migrate and reduce their ability to move, making its effect ambiguous. Following this evidence, the authors propose an approach to studying migration that combines causal inference…
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The European Union’s Governmentality of Climate-Induced Migration: A Need for Reconceptualization
Given the significant, irreversible impact of climate change on human migration, policy corresponding to the specific needs of these situations would already be expected to exist. But, although the EU is a leading actor in climate governance, the author finds that its policymaking reflects a more…
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How does the Climate Change and Migration Nexus Result in Maladaptation?
The characteristics and causes of ineffective migration and how such movements can lead to maladaptation were researched in this article. Based on a systematic review of 89 studies, the analysis considers impacts on migrant households, destination communities, and origin communities, including those left behind and trapped…
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Is Climate Change a Valid Reason for Migration? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment
Is climate change perceived as a legitimate reason for long-term immigration? And under what conditions this perception holds? Using a conjoint experiment with a quota-representative sample of Dutch respondents, the research explores public attitudes toward climate migrants. Study results show that climate migrants are viewed more…
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Becoming a Climate Migrant: Climate Change and Sequential Migration Decision-Making
When and how does someone living through climate crisis decide to migrate? This article theorizes climate migration through an ethnographic case study from northeastern Colombia during a period of prolonged drought. Results demonstrate that migration decisions in the context of climate crisis are not single events,…
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The Magnitude of Climate Change-Induced Migration: An Overview of Projections and a Case for Attribution
While it has been vastly proved that weather and climate affect migration, few studies have attempted to project future impacts or attribute past migration patterns to climate change. In light of this, in this paper the existing projections of climate change impacts on human migration are…
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The Nexus Between Migration and Environmental Degradation Based on Fundamental Climate Variables and Extreme Climate Indices for the MENA Domain
According to the authors of this study, environmental migration has recently become the primary source of population growth in the Middle East and North Africa, as environmental degradation from extreme events has created the environmental refugee concept with a variety of manners affecting lives. In line…
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Unveiling the Interrelations Between Migration, Climate Change, and Energy Transitions in the Context of Socioeconomic Disparities
The interplay between migration, climate change, energy transitions, and socioeconomic inequality are examined in this paper, highlighting their influence on regional resilience and sustainable development. Through an analysis of existing literature, it investigates how migration is shaped by environmental stress, energy challenges, and economic inequalities, emphasizing…
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The Impact of Climate Change on Forced Migration in the Sahel: Human RightsPerspective (Nigeria as a Case Study)
Noticing how climate change casts a shadow on Nigeria’s Sahel region, driving environmental degradation, disrupting livelihoods, and displacing communities, with grave consequences, leaving the most vulnerable in the society square up against human rights abuses in their search to escape their environmental misfortune, the authors saw…
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Preparing for Climate Migration and Integration: A Policy and Research Agenda
Recent research on climate migration is reviewed in this paper, including projections of future migrant numbers, while introducing a typology that distinguishes strategic migrants, disaster migrants, managed relocation, and trapped populations. Drawing on migration theory and research on immigrant and refugee integration, the author proposes that…
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Remembering Colonialism and Combating Hate Speech
Proposal: Remembering Colonialism at Schools: Acknowledging the European Past to Combat Hate Speech Implementation: 2025 to 2026 Call: CERV-2024-CITIZENS-REM – European Remembrance – 2024 Type of Action: CERV-LS – CERV Lump Sum Grants Proposed Budget: 214 070,00€ Keywords: Decolonization, Historical memory, education, hate speech, remembrance Objective:…
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Extending Reality to Increase Impact
Proposal: Extending Reality to Increase European Cultural and Creative Industries’ Visibility, Impact, and Success Implementation: 2025 to 2029 Call: HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01 – Research and innovation on cultural heritage and CCIs – 2024 Type of Action: HORIZON-IA – HORIZON Innovation Actions Proposed Budget: 3 997 777,13€ Keywords: Social…
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Promote Women Empowerment Through Digital Skills
Proposal: Creative Opportunities for Digital High-Quality Education through Research Implementation: 2025 to 2028 Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2024-POL-EXP – European policy experimentation Type of Action: ERASMUS-LS – ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants Proposed Budget: 799 816,79€ Keywords: Boosting gender balance in ICT Objective: The project aims to promote female empowerment…
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BRIDGE
Proposal: BRIDGE: Building Resilience through Intercultural Dialogue and Global Exchange Implementation: 2025 to 2027 Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2025-VIRT-EXCH – Erasmus+ Virtual Exchanges Type of Action: ERASMUS-LS – ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants Proposed Budget: 308 581,00€ Keywords: Resilience, Intercultural Dialogue, Storytelling, Global Exchange Objective: The BRIDGE project (Building Resilience…
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Drought and Aridity Influence Internal Migration Worldwide
While the effects of climate change on migration have attracted wide attention, comparative evidence on their role in internal migration remains scarce. Using census-based data from 72 countries (1960–2016) and 107,840 migration flows between subnational regions, this study shows that increased drought and aridity significantly influence…
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Effects of Climate Change on Migration in Latin America and Caribbean: A Scoping Review
Climate change-induced natural disasters such as hurricanes, landslides, forest fires, and changes in precipitation directly affect rural sectors that depend on field production and other dimensions of everyday life. This scoping review examines the health effects of climate change on environmental migrants in Latin America and…
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Climate Change and Migration: A Review and New Framework for Analysis
Seeing how most climate-related migration research remains overly environment – centric, a new interpretive framework is introduced in this article. The proposed framework considers five pathways through which climate change may influence migration: short-term shocks, long-term climatic changes, environmental “pull” factors, climate adaptation and mitigation measures,…
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Climate Change and Migration: Climate Change Induced Migration in International Law and the Human Right to a Sustainable Environment
As droughts, floods, sea-level rise, and other climate change induced phenomena are substantially threatening lives and livelihoods, forcing many to abandon their homes, despite the global dimension of these increasing phenomena, international legal instruments remain insufficient to deal with environmental migration, leaving those affected under insecure…
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Migration, Climate Change, and Voluntariness
Climate change challenges the means of subsistence for many, particularly in the Global South. To respond to the challenges of climate change, governments increasingly resort to resettling those most affected by land erosion, heat, drought, floods, and the like. In this article, the author investigates to…
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Climate Migration: A Gendered Perspective
This article examines climate-induced migration through a gender-sensitive perspective, drawing attention to how pre-existing social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities create a greater likelihood of being forced to move due to the impacts of climate change. This can be particularly true for women and girls who face…
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Preserve the Collective Memory & Intercultural and Intergenerational Exchanges
Proposal: Liberation and construction of fraternal Europe 1935 – 1945: 80 years of liberation and hope. Implementation: 2024 to 2025 Call: CERV-2023-CITIZENS-REM – European Remembrance – 2023 Type of Action: CERV-LS – CERV Lump Sum Grants Proposed Budget: 553 275,00€ Keywords: Civil society, Combatting Anti-Semitism, EU…
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Opposition & Youth-Led Movements in the Euromediterranean Region
Proposal: Research on Opposition, Building Trusts, and Youth-Led Movements in the Euromediterranean Region Implementation: 2024 to 2027 Call: HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01 – Past, present and future of democracies Type of Action: HORIZON-RIA – HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions Proposed Budget: 2 999 036,25€ Keywords: Participatory/Participation, New participatory democracy…
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Promoting Democratic Participation
Proposal: Virtual AdvOcacy for PosItive DemoCraciES Implementation: 2024 to 2026 Call: CERV-2023-CITIZENS-CIV – Citizens’ engagement and participation – 2023 Type of Action: CERV-LS – CERV Lump Sum Grants Proposed Budget: 168 860,00€ Keywords: Promoting democratic participation, debating the future of Europe, future, europe, youngsters, positive narratives,…
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Climate Change, Vulnerabilities, and Migration: Insights from Ecological Migrants in Bangladesh
This study examines the interaction between environmental hazards and non-environmental factors that drive migration, augmented by the struggles they face and their urban survival strategies. It focuses on Aila-induced migrants living in a slum in Khulna city, challenging the idea that environmental hazards alone explain migration…
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Promoting Democratic Participation Through Debate
Proposal: Engaging Youth in EU Politics in the Aftermath of Elections Implementation: 2024 to 2026 Call: CERV-2023-CITIZENS-CIV – Citizens’ engagement and participation – 2023 Type of Action: CERV-LS – CERV Lump Sum Grants Proposed Budget: 657 525,00€ Keywords: Promoting democratic participation through debating the future of…
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Climate Change and the Public Health Imperative for Supporting Migration as Adaptation
As human mobility has reached unprecedented levels in an era of accelerating global climate change, it is acknowledged that many cases of human migration in the context of climate change are forced or involuntary, particularly where adaptation measures have failed to achieve sufficient resiliency of communities…
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Migration and Climate Change – The Role of Social Protection
Social protection as a tool for supporting climate-vulnerable populations by reducing livelihood risks and smoothing consumption is examined in this systematic review. Drawing on 28 studies, it analyzes how social protection influences migration decisions, experiences, and outcomes in the context of climate change through mechanisms such…
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The Future is Now: Climate Displacement and Human Rights Obligations — A Note on Recent Developments in the UN Human Rights Committee
Although climate-related litigation has been a growing global concern, the author of this paper notices that climate mobility in itself has seldom been the subject of relevant case law. Only human rights bodies in particular have begun to make progress in legal developments in the sphere…
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A Systematic Review of Climate Migration Research: Gaps in Existing Literature
In this literature review, an analysis is made of how climate-induced migration is framed in academic literature, and key research gaps are identified. For this purpose, a systematic review was done of 161 journal articles published between 1990 and 2019. Results reveal diverse discourses focusing on…
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Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
This paper investigates the long-term effects of climate change on global migration and inequality, having the authors modeled the impact of climate change on productivity and utility in a dynamic general equilibrium framework. By endogenizing migration decisions across millions of spatial cells, the study captures the…
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A Global Child Health Perspective on Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights
The growing impacts of anthropogenic climate change on human displacement and child health are vast, and the need for immediate collaborative action and policy change to reduce carbon emissions is imperative. Climate-related disasters and extreme weather events are already disrupting livelihoods, economies, population health, and human…
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Migration and Dignity – Relocation and Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change Displacement in the Pacific – A Human Rights Perspective
In this study, the threat of climate-induced displacement facing millions of people is looked into, with particular attention to Small Island States in the Pacific. Focusing on the case of Kiribati, it analyzes the shift from the government’s former Migration With Dignity (MWD) relocation strategy to…
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Climate Change, Migration, and Civil Strife
In this theoretical paper, the intersection of human migration and climate change is investigated, highlighting growing evidence that environmental and climatic changes act as triggers for both voluntary and forced displacement. The authors argue that this connection calls for anticipatory and proactive engagement at global, regional,…
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Climate Change and Migration: New Insights from a Dynamic Model of Out-Migration and Return Migration
In this paper the impacts of climate change on migration and climate refugees experiences are investigated, through the use of an agent-based model (ABM) of land use, social networks, and household dynamics to examine how extreme floods and droughts affect migration in Northeast Thailand. The ABM…
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Climate Change and Displacement: Protecting ‘Climate Refugees’ within a Framework of Justice and Human Rights
In this paper, climate-induced migration is examined as a complex and far-reaching consequence of climate change, with forced displacement affecting millions worldwide. The author notices that although the link between climate change and migration was recognized as early as the first IPCC report in 1990, displacement…
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Outre-Mer
Proposal: Les Ambassadeurs de la citoyenneté et de la mobilité européennes dans les Régions ultrapériphériques de l’Union européenne Implementation: 2020 to 2023 Call: Erasmus+ Youth Key Action 2 – KA205 – Strategic partnership for youth Type of Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good…
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Climate Change Impact on Migration, Travel, Travel Destinations and the Tourism Industry
The impact of climate change on migration and travel with implications for public health practice are discussed in this literature review. How climate change influences migration and travel is examined, and the implications of these processes for public health. Climate change is increasing temperatures, intensifying extreme…
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Human Rights and Climate Displacement and Migration
Initiatives that offer opportunities to develop more effective, practical, and politically viable strategies for addressing climate-related migration are discussed in this article. It is emphasized how human rights law already provides robust protection for migrants moving under a wide range of circumstances, but climate change is…
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Climate Justice, Migration and Human Rights
This article explains how a human rights – based, multi-stakeholder approach – incorporating corporate social responsibility – has emerged within the framework of climate justice. Climate justice is presented as a model that envisions international human rights standards implemented in accountable, transparent, and participatory ways. It…
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Critical Perspective on the Identification of ‘Environmental Refugees’ as a Category of Human Rights Concern
In light of the phenomenon of climate change induced migration, this chapter offers a critical reflection not only on the insufficiencies of existing governance, but also of the flaws and weaknesses of reform proposals The author challenges the normative discourse surrounding the term “environmental refugee”, focusing…
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The Human Rights of Climate-Induced Community Relocation
In this paper, the case study of the relocation of Newtok – an Indigenous community in Alaska – as a response to climate change is analyzed, exploring human rights issues surrounding climate-induced planned relocations. Newtok is an example of a coastal community that faces forced relocation…
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State Responsibility to Prevent Climate Displacement
In this article, the issue of climate displacement as one of the most significant humanitarian and human rights challenges of the twenty-first century is considered. It begins by outlining the global scale of the issue and the particular vulnerabilities faced by people displaced by climate-related hazards,…
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Raise Awareness of European Citizenship
Proposal: raise awareness of European citizenship and to encourage active European citizenship among young people Implementation: 2017 to 2019 Call: Erasmus+ Youth Key Action 2 – KA205 – Strategic partnership for youth Type of Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices Budget: 89…
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Exploring the Climate Change, Migration and Conflict Nexus
According to the authors of this study, the potential link between climate change, migration, and conflict has been discussed and is increasingly viewed by policy makers as a security issue. However, considerable uncertainty remains regarding the role that climate variability and change play among the many…
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Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice
The environmental and health consequences of climate change are explored in this paper, reiterating how they profoundly affect human rights and social justice, with disproportionate impacts on low-income countries and vulnerable populations within high-income countries. It is noticed how environmental changes such as rising temperatures, altered…
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Climate Justice Without Freedom: Assessing Legal and Political Responses to Climate Change and Forced Migration
As storm surges, flooding, heatwaves, and prolonged drought, as ever more regular features of life under deteriorating climate conditions, are unmistakably violent, and their effects on the lives of vulnerable human populations and ecosystems across the world are devastating. At the same time, a legal order…