Julian Hattem
Julian Hattem is Editor of the Migration Information Source, the online journal of the Migration Policy Institute, and is responsible for its content and publication.
Before joining MPI, he spent a decade as a journalist focusing on international migration, politics, and conflict. He has been on staff with the Associated Press, The Hill, and the Yomiuri Shimbun, and has been awarded journalism fellowships from the Heinrich Boell Foundation North America and the International Reporting Project to report on migration in Southern Europe and Southeast Asia. As a freelance journalist he reported from four continents, and his articles have been published by outlets including the Guardian, the Washington Post, Public Radio International, World Politics Review, National Public Radio, and Quartz.
Mr. Hattem holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in conflict studies from the London School of Economics.
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A Warm Embrace in the Cold North? Climate Migration in Nordic Countries
As climate impacts intensify across the Arctic, how well do the Nordic region's progressive traditions translate into protection for people on the move?
“Coolcations” and “Last-Chance Tourism”: How Climate Change Is Upending Vacation Planning
How is climate change transforming global tourism — and what does that mean for the travelers, destinations, and economies caught in the middle?
What Brazil’s Disastrous Flooding Says about Climate Displacement Trends
When climate-driven disasters collide with weak legal frameworks and pre-existing migrant vulnerability, who bears the greatest burden of displacement — and what protections exist in South America to address it?
Migration, Climate Change, and Security in the Pacific
How does climate-driven displacement in the Pacific complicate the already fragile boundaries between humanitarian response, diplomacy, and military action?
Is the Humanitarian Protection System Falling Apart or Quietly Evolving?
The post-World War II refugee protection system is straining under record displacement, but also quietly evolving through use of temporary statuses and offshore processing.
Confronting the Ethical Questions around Climate Change and Migration
The moral case for climate displacement responsibility is more complex — and more contested — than popular narratives suggest.
Could a Loss and Damage Fund Compensate Climate Migrants?
The emerging Loss and Damage Fund represents an unprecedented attempt to assign financial responsibility for climate displacement — and the questions it raises are as consequential as the fund itself.
Moving Mountains: Climate Migration in High Altitudes
How does climate change interact with migration in mountain communities, and what does the movement of people mean for the resilience of the places — and populations — left behind?
Are the Pacific’s Climate Migration Experiments a Preview for the World?
As climate displacement moves from projection to reality in the Pacific, how are governments and legal frameworks adapting to a challenge that existing migration systems were not designed to address?
What Exactly Is Climate Migration?
When climate change shapes human movement in ways that are indirect, uneven, and hard to trace, what do researchers mean when they use the term "climate migration" — and what might that framing leave out?
