ABSTRACT
The knowledge of climate refugees tacitly claims that there is a direct connection between global warming-induced sea level rise and population movement. This chapter showcases evidences of how a number of political–economic actors used the climate change data on sea level rise to produce the knowledge of climate refugees in the 1990s, in the particular context of Bangladesh. It focuses on how, since 2010, the same political– economic actors have replaced the knowledge of climate refugees with that of climate change-induced internal migration or displaced people. The chapter presents evidences from various pieces of literature including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports, the documents and reports of the World Bank/United Nations Development Programme, the studies conducted by the government of Bangladesh, and elite interviews. It argues that there exists a significant interconnection between all the actors as regards replacing the idea of climate refugees with that of climate change-induced displacement.
