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Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series Issue 4 | Vol. 2 | April 2016

Azerbaijan, situated in the Caucasus region, is exposed to hazardous environmental challenges ‒ namely natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods and landslides ‒ which have displaced thousands of people in recent years. Slow-onset processes, such as salinization, droughts and soil degradation... Read more

Global Migration Data Analysis Centre: Data Briefing Series | Issue No. 2, March 2016

Climate change is a key concern for the international community. The links to environmental degradation and human mobility are increasingly understood, leading to calls for data on environmental migrants. However, meaningful data only exist on persons newly displaced by disasters within countries,... Read more

Série de bulletins politiques: Migration, environnement et changement climatique Numéro 3 | vol. 2 | mars 2016

La migration environnementale représente une réalité pour le Maroc : les facteurs environnementaux et climatiques contribuent à la migration vers le Maroc en provenance d'Afrique sub-saharienne, mais aussi aux mouvements d’émigration et de migration interne, en particulier vers les grandes villes... Read more

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series Issue 3 | Vol. 2 | March 2016

Environmental migration is a reality for Morocco. Environmental and climatic factors not only account for migration to Morocco from sub-Saharan Africa, but also for movements out of and within the country, especially to the major coastal cities. With the severe impacts of climate change expected to... Read more

Migration Focus on environment and climate change

The Environment booklet features all IOM publications focusing on the state of environment and climate change and how these have affected migration in general. Included in this series are publications from 2008 and to date, such as the International Dialogue on Migration, the Migration Research... Read more

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series Issue 2 | Vol. 2 | February 2016

The question of how to regulate international migration-related challenges in the context of rapid-onset natural disasters is attracting increasing interest from academics and policymakers alike. However, the fact that the issue is not addressed directly by international law or policy has sometimes... Read more

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Working Paper Series | No. 1/2016

This working paper presents the methodological basis for the Migration, Environmental and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP) project, funded by the European Union. Migration as adaptation has been widely discussed but remains empirically understudied. The authors call for a... Read more

Diagnóstico de Informaciones para Políticas: Migración, Medio Ambiente y Cambio climático en la República Dominicana

En el marco del proyecto “Migración, medio ambiente y cambio climático: Datos empíricos para la elaboración de políticas (MECLEP)” financiado por la Unión Europea, este diagnóstico nacional delinea el nexo entre migración, medio ambiente y cambio climático en la República Dominicana.

Migration, environnement et changement climatique: Série de Bulletins Politiques Numéro 8 | Vol. 1 | Décembre 2015

Sur la base des résultats principaux de l‘étude de cas du projet MECLEP en Haïti, ce Bulletin politique explore comment les différentes formes de mobilité humaine se relient à la vulnérabilité des ménages dans trois municipalités haïtiennes (La Marmelade, Les Gonaïves et Port-au-Prince). La... Read more

National Migration Policy 2015

There has been increased interest in migration and migration policies in the last decade. Several developments at global, regional, subregional and national levels have raised migration issues to the forefront of the political and policy arenas, emphasizing the need for legal frameworks to curtail... Read more

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series Issue 1 | Vol. 2 | January 2016

Land matters: The role of land policies and laws for environmental migration in Kenya Environmental migration is inevitably linked to the question of land for several reasons: (a) environmental and climate change reduces the amount of habitable land; (b) more land is needed to accommodate those who... Read more

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series Issue 11| Vol. 1 | December 2015

The Republic of Mauritius is at the forefront of climate change. The country experiences tropical cyclones, flash floods, droughts and sea-level rise that threaten the land and livelihood of the country’s most vulnerable populations. This policy brief summarizes the current situation of migration,... Read more