ABSTRACT

This chapter aims to build a model that could turn chaotic climate refuge seeking into planned climate migration by learning from history. It uses qualitative case studies derived from literature and compiled into a framework as a research method. The chapter suggests that in synchrony with climigration, the concept of clirefuge could be used of seeking climate change refuge. Whether people who have to move because of climate change should be called climigrants or clirefugees is a topical issue. Climigration is the concept Bronen uses for forced permanent migration of communities due to climate change. Bronen maintains that there are three patterns of climate-induced migration: 'the migration of individuals and households where climate change is one of several factors causing migration, mass migration where entire communities are forced to temporarily evacuate, and mass migration where entire communities are forced to permanently relocate'. Many countries will be able to resettle their climigrants within the boundaries of their nation.