ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the potential of existing mobility options for reducing the vulnerability of affected communities by strengthening the nexus between human mobility regimes and climate change-related policies. It analyses the potential of existing avenues and tools that are available to facilitate mobility. The chapter focuses on a case study of the Pacific Island Countries and the negotiations that have taken place in the context of trade-related measures to expand labour mobility channels. It explains that it is crucial to explore the added value that the progressive liberalisation of the temporary movement of natural persons as service suppliers may have for affected nations as a measure that can be used to complement traditional avenues of migration policy. The chapter explores the possible implications of conceiving migrants as a form of 'mobile labour power' and how existing instruments can be reconfigured to ensure that mobility regimes positively foster resilience and so indirectly protect human rights.
