ABSTRACT

Cross-border displacement due to environmental disasters is at the heart of today’s international migration discourse. Millions of people are forcibly displaced by floods in China, India and the Philippines; windstorms in the USA, Cuba and Madagascar; earthquakes in Chile and Italy; and droughts in Somalia and South Sudan. The Pacific Island States are in danger of disappearing due to rising sea levels. Several institutions, such as the IOM, UNHCR and the EU Parliament, have deliberated the issue.