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The impacts of climate change on the ocean and marine ecosystems profoundly affect human livelihoods and mobility. Recognizing the need to respond to the challenges arising from the interaction between ocean and marine ecosystem change and human migration and displacement, the International… Read More
The impacts of climate change on the ocean and marine ecosystems profoundly affect human livelihoods and mobility. Recognizing the need to respond to the challenges arising from the interaction between ocean and marine ecosystem change and human migration and displacement, the International… Read More
As a polymorphic migratory profile and a climate-vulnerable country, Morocco is particularly concerned with environmental-induced mobility. On one hand, environmental and climatic factors account for migration to Morocco from sub-Saharan and movements out of and within the country, especially to… Read More
The Best Practice Guide is operational guidance on how to set up and run an inter-agency community-based complaint mechanism (CBCM) to handle reports of sexual abuse and exploitation by aid workers. It compiles lessons learned, examples, and case studies gathered throughout the course of a 2013–… Read More
In the framework of the European Union–funded Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP) project, this report analyses the case of Manam islanders in Papua New Guinea. Approximately 9,000 people were evacuated to the north coast of Madang Province due to volcanic… Read More
In the framework of the European Union–funded Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy (MECLEP) project, the Republic of Kenya (hereafter Kenya) is one of the six pilot countries. The country was selected as it is prone to extreme events. In fact, since 1964, a total of 58.66… Read More
This research produced by the Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Division of the International Organization for Migration summarizes the references to migration in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the United… Read More
The State of Environmental Migration series gathers the expertise of researchers, students and professionals to provide an annual assessment of the changing nature and dynamics of environment- and climate-related migration throughout the world.
IOM is committed to the fight against climate change and supports communities in adaptation efforts to current and future environmental and climate challenges. Global climate negotiations, conducted within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),… Read More
La migración, el cambio climático y el medio ambiente plantean un complejo conjunto de cuestiones trasversales que revisten cada vez más importancia para todas las actividades de la OIM. Desde el 2000, se han financiado más de 750 proyectos, que han sido aplicados en todo el mundo en el marco de… Read More
La multiproblématique migration, changement climatique et environnement englobe un ensemble complexe de questions transversales qui revêtent une importance croissante dans toutes les activités de l’OIM. Depuis 2000, plus de 750 projets ont été financés et mis en œuvre dans le monde entier au titre… Read More
L’OIM s’engage dans la lutte contre les changements climatiques et soutient les communautés dans leurs processus d’adaptation aux défis environnementaux actuels et à venir. Les négociations mondiales sur le climat, menées dans le cadre de la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements… Read More
Brazil has witnessed an increased level of human mobility due to environmental change. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, between 2008 and 2014, Brazil was among the countries with the highest numbers of internally displaced persons. Furthermore, the country is one of the top… Read More
Catastrophes géophysiques ou météorologiques, hausse du niveau des mers, désertification, dégradation des écosystèmes : chaque année, des millions de personnes quittent leurs terres pour des raisons environnementales. Un phénomène que le changement climatique en cours ne va qu'amplifier.
A l'aide… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
The photo novella was produced under the project “Preventing and Addressing Violence against Women and Girls in Albania” implemented by UN Women, UNDP and IOM and funded by the European Union. It was designed to contribute to raising awareness of trafficking issues. The photo novella was developed… Read More
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
Many of the world’s vulnerable have limited or no access to education and lack the financial resources to overcome the adverse impacts of natural disasters. Forced by poverty to inhabit low-lying coastal deltas, riverbanks, flood plains, steep slopes and degraded urban environments where the impact… Read More
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
This policy brief is the result of an interdisciplinary research workshop with academics and practitioners, held at Bielefeld University in Germany on November 2014, in cooperation with COST Action IS1011 on Climate Change and Migration. The Bielefeld Consultation identified the need to raise… Read More
In light of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris at the end of 2015, this policy brief highlights why human mobility should be included in the discussions on adaptation. Migration, in the context of environmental degradation and climate change, is already a reality today,… Read More
El medioambiente ha sido un promotor de la migración, puesto que las personas huyen para sobrevivir a desastres naturales o se desplazan, a raíz de condiciones medioambientales difíciles y deterioradas, en busca de oportunidades en otras partes. Es posible que el cambio climático exacerbe los… Read More
L’environnement a toujours été un facteur de migration. En effet, face à des catastrophes naturelles ou à un milieu rude ou qui se dégrade, les populations fuient en quête d’autres perspectives. On s’attend à ce que l’évolution du climat aggrave les catastrophes soudaines et à évolution lente ainsi… Read More
Building on the main results of the MECLEP case study in Haiti, this policy brief explores how different forms of human mobility relate to household vulnerability in three Haitian municipalities (La Marmelade, Les Gonaïves and Port-au-Prince). Recurrent (including seasonal) migration seems to be… Read More
Los flujos migratorios siempre han caracterizado la historia de la República Dominicana. La migración interna es un fenómeno significativo en el país. Sin embargo, aunque la República Dominicana sea uno de los países con mayor vulnerabilidad al fenómeno del cambio climático, la relación entre… Read More
El estudio "La trata de personas en Paraguay", describe y analiza desde un abordaje cualitativo, las causas económicas y culturales que dan origen a este fenómeno y las especificidades que adquiere a nivel local tipificando el perfil de la víctima, el victimario y su modus operandi.
Identifica las… Read More
This study-diagnosis on "Migration, Prostitution and Trafficking in Dominican Women in Argentina" is the result of research work whose main goal was to cast light on the relation between migration, prostitution and trafficking, taking as reference a group of Dominican women who emigrated to… Read More
Dans le cadre du projet « Migration, environnement et changement climatique : données à l’usage des politiques » (MECLEP), financé par l’Union européenne, cette étude bibliographique sur les rapports entre les thématiques de la migration, l’environnement et les changements climatiques constitue une… Read More
Esta guía es una valiosa herramienta conceptual y metodológica de todos los temas relacionados con la trata de personas, la guía está dirigida a Multiplicadores los cuales adelantaran de forma interactiva, dinámica y pedagógicamente todos sus conocimientos a la comunidad.
This volume is the third of an annual series, which aims to provide the reader with regularly updated assessments on the changing nature and dynamics of environmental migration throughout the world. The idea for it stemmed from the course “Environment and Migration”, taught at the Paris School of… Read More
Is relocation an adequate means of adaptation to environmental change? And if so, how should the relocation process be designed to benefit the affected population? This policy brief analyses the success factors of relocation programmes by drawing on studies on relocation projects in the Mekong… Read More
La OIM está consagrada a promover la temática de la movilidad humana en el centro de las negociaciones internacionales sobre el clima, en el contexto de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC). El presente informe describe, tanto las diversas contribuciones de… Read More
The information obtained during this research, while not allowing any overall estimates on the magnitude of the problem, referred to numerous concrete cases of both human trafficking and exploitation of persons working in degrading and inhuman conditions in all participating countries which… Read More
Published several times a year, Migration is an update on the Organization's activities and international migration policy issues. Migration is available in English, French and Spanish.
Published several times a year, Migration is an update on the Organization's activities and international migration policy issues. Migration is available in English, French and Spanish.
Published several times a year, Migration is an update on the Organization's activities and international migration policy issues. Migration is available in English, French and Spanish.
When natural disasters strike populated areas, the toll in human lives, infrastructure and economic activities can be devastating and long-lasting. The psychological effects can be just as debilitating, instilling fear and discouragement in the affected populations. But, adversity also brings forth… Read More
Este informe se centra en los posibles futuros escenarios de cambio climático y desastres naturales así como de migración y desarrollo, en un empeño por concienciar sobre la situación y encontrar respuestas a los desafíos que ello plantea.
Le présent rapport met essentiellement l’accent sur les scénarios futurs possibles de changements climatiques, de catastrophes naturelles, de migrations et de développement, dans l’espoir de susciter une prise de conscience accrue et de trouver des réponses aux problèmes qui se profilent à l’… Read More
This report focuses on the possible future scenarios for climate change, natural disasters and migration and development, looking to increase awareness and find answers to the challenges that lie ahead.
Despite the growing awareness of the nexus between climate change and migration, the subject has not yet been explored empirically in a way that generates conclusive results. Climate change might increase migration as people need to search for a living elsewhere, but migration might as well… Read More