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- Title
SLOW-ONSET CLIMATE JUSTICE AND HUMAN MOBILITY.
- Authors
Ramji-Nogales, Jaya
- Abstract
The literature on climate migration focuses on the attention-grabbing situation of small island nations from which people have beenforced to flee as their land has literally disappeared into the ocean. Though these migrants generally do not fit within the strictures of the UN Rejugee Convention's definition of a refugee, they are the locus of much legal attention. In the words of Hilary Charlesworth, "lilnternational lawyers revel in a good crisis."1 On theflip side of that equation, international lawyers and law itself are not so enamored of slow-moving events. Slow-onset climate change renders agricultural livelihoods unsustainable over time, in some cases provoking permanent cross-border migration. International law relating to migration largely overlooks these less dramatic causes of migration, as its narrow scope andfocus on cause and crisis fit uneasily with slow-onset climate migration. Drawing from a case study of small holding farmers in Guatemala, this Essay argues that international law should utilize a human mobility framework, taking direction from those aIRcted by slow-onset climate change.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL justice; ENVIRONMENTAL refugees; CONVENTION Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951); INTERNATIONAL law; EMIGRATION &; immigration &; the environment; CLIMATE change
- Publication
Temple Law Review, 2021, Vol 93, Issue 4, p671
- ISSN
0899-8086
- Publication type
Article