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With Millions Displaced by Climate Change or Extreme Weather, Is There a Role for Labor Migration Pathways?
Labor migration channels are a key tool for climate adaptation, amid rising displacement from natural disasters each year.
A New Era in Refugee Protection and Migration Management? Looking Forward After UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants
MPI experts discuss the outcomes from the UN Summit on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants and President Obama's Leaders Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis and what it means for international cooperation on refugee protection and management of migration flows.
Climate Change and Natural Disasters Displace Millions, Affect Migration Flows
Nepal’s earthquake, slow-burning droughts, and other events quietly redrew migration patterns and challenged existing protection frameworks.
Redefining Nepal: Internal Migration in a Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Society
Nepal’s post-conflict, post-disaster internal migration is reshaping regions, gender roles, and federal politics in ways aid and leaders must navigate.
Protection in Crisis: Forced Migration and Protection in a Global Era
The 1951 Refugee Convention's persecution framework no longer covers most forced migrants, leaving the world's 51 million displaced without adequate legal protection.
Human Rights, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: A New Paradigm
Discussion at launch of this MPI-IOM Issue in Brief, Human Rights, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: A New Paradigm, which focuses on the vulnerability of environmental migrants and how the international legal framework can better ensure their protection, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
Human Rights, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: A New Paradigm
Climate migrants lack meaningful legal protection under existing international frameworks, leaving their rights dependent on the political will of receiving states.
What We Know About Migration and Development
The migration-development link is well evidenced but weakly governed, and most countries still treat emigration as a drain rather than a potential development asset.
Environmental Change and Migration: What We Know
Climate change will displace millions through drought, sea-level rise, storms, and conflict—yet most immigration systems have no framework to govern these movements.
Migration and Environmental Change: Assessing the developing European approach
Climate-linked migration should be contextualized within broader migration frameworks, rather than treating it as a category requiring separate legal protections.
