Some comments on the debate "migration-nexus-climate changes": continuing with the status quo?

• Autores: Sonia Brigite da Rocha Pires
• Localización: Miradas en Movimiento, ISSN-e 1852-2173, Vol. Extra 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Naturally Inmigranrs), págs. 12-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The debate surrounding the issue of environmentally induced migration is still in an early stage yet many approaches have been presented by academic and nongovernmental bodies. The main conclusion we derive is that international, regional and national procedures and laws should be applied to Internally Displaced People and to cross-state migrants. In fact, the most part of migrants fleeing climate change hazards move, at least to date, inside their country and cross-state migration is rather the exception. We argue that the issue is oriented towards the status quo of Globalization processes and the preservation of ethnocentric views. Finally, we draw attention to the role that international migration theories may have to play in settling the debate.