The environmental migration in the international climate change regime from the perspective of AOSIS
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https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-5694.2019.1.33212Keywords:
Environmental migration, AOSIS, Adaptation, Climate change regimeAbstract
Environmental migration has gained the spotlight over recent decades both as the human dimension of climate change impacts and as an effective adaptation strategy for communities in vulnerable regions. This paper analyzes how environmental migration is presented in the discourse of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), the negotiation group of countries most affected by global warming, in the climate change regime. Through analysis of primary sources, it is noted that the migration process is used as a moral legitimation of AOSIS’ mitigation proposals, without being considered as an adaptation proposal. Before this apparent inconsistency between the use of migra- tion in the discourse and the lack of adaptation effective measures, possible explanations are presented regarding political, cultural, technical and structural aspects.
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