- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Migration Crises: Definitions, Critiques, and Global Contexts
- Migrations and Macro-Regions in Times of Crises: Long-Term Historiographic Perspectives
- Migrants in Crisis in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Memories of a French Migration Crisis: The Harkis
- Decolonization, Nation Building, and Migration Crises in Southeast Asia
- Migration Crisis and “Brexit”
- Refugee and Romani Immigrant Populations in Barcelona
- The Myth of a Migration Crisis in France: Transformations of Public Actions and Solidarist Actions
- The Manufacturing of the US-Mexico Border Crisis
- Refugees in the United States and the Politics of Crisis
- The Politics of the Refugee Crisis in Hungary: Bordering and Ordering the Nation and Its Others
- East Asian Exceptionalism to Western Populism and Migration Crisis
- Central American Refugees Reveal the Crisis of the State
- Conflicting Perspectives on the “Migrant Crisis” in the Horn of Africa
- Precarious Mobility in Central America and Southern Mexico: Crises and the Struggle to Survive
- Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s
- Syrian Refugees and Turkey: Whose “Crisis”?
- Climate-Migration Responses in the Pacific Region
- Migration and Environmental Crises in Africa
- Effects of Climate Change on Migration Crises in Oceania
- Climate Change and Migration Crisis in Africa
- “Refugee Crisis” in the Southeastern European Countries: The Rise and Fall of the Balkan Corridor
- Wars and Migration Crises in Central America: On Missing Persons during Armed Conflict and International Migration
- Afghan Experiences of Displacement
- Migration Crises in Turkey
- Managing the “Refugee Crisis” along the Balkan Route: Field Notes from Serbia
- The Criminalization of Migration in Canada and Its Unintended Policy Consequences
- Violence at the US-Mexico Border
- Regional Migration and Argentina’s “Hospitality” in Crisis
- Australia and People Seeking Asylum who Arrive by Boat
- The Crisis Mentality of Russian Migration Management
- The United States and Migration Crises: Refugees in the Past and Present
- Deportation, Crisis, and Social Change
- Ethics and Migration Crises
- Migration Flows and Migration Crisis in Southern Europe
- Narratives of Crisis Migration and the Power of Visual Culture
- Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts
- Gender and Social Exclusion in European Migration Crisis: A Sociohistorical Perspective
- LGBTQ Migration Crises
- The Post-Communist Identity Crisis and Queer Migration from Poland
- A Gendered Analysis of the European Refugee “Crisis”
- Human Trafficking as a Migration Crisis: Gender, Precariousness, and Access to Labor Rights
- Sanctuary and Unsettling “the” Refugee Crisis
- The Syrian Refugee Crisis, Multiculturalism Issues, and Integration in Canada
- Migration and Integration in China
- The Paradox of Immigrant Political Participation in Europe amidst Crises of Multiculturalism
- Migration to Australia in Times of Crisis
- Migration Crisis and Social Trauma
- The Crisis of Gulf Migration
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The conventional narrative on the crisis of climate change and its links to migration sees the physical impacts of climate change—such as sea-level rise, drought, soil salinization, and floods—as driving massive human migration, increasing existing flows from the Global South to the Global North as people flee disasters and famine. Yet contradictory evidence demonstrates that the relationship between climate change and migration is not so simple. Africa is indeed the most vulnerable content to these impacts, but this extreme vulnerability arises from physical exposure and because of the interplay of numerous social, political, economic, and environmental factors. Moreover, migration dynamics related to the climate change crisis manifest in nonlinear, heterogeneous ways across subregions and countries. Thus, this chapter outlines the varying and multidimensional relationships between human mobility and climate change in Africa. It considers the threat of climate change to African settlement dynamics both presently and in the century to come, before providing an overview of climate change–migration dynamics and challenges throughout the continent.
Keywords: climate change, environment, migration, displacement, Africa
Caroline Zickgraf is Deputy Director of the Hugo Observatory—the world’s first scientific research center dedicated to the links between environment, migration, and politics—and is an FNRS postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Liège. She specializes in African environmental migration, with a particular focus on immobility and transnationalism in areas affected by climate change and other forms of environmental degradation. She currently leads the IMMOBILE project, funded by the Belgian National Scientific Fund (FNRS), in which she has conducted case studies in two African countries, Senegal and Comoros, as well as the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam.
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- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Migration Crises: Definitions, Critiques, and Global Contexts
- Migrations and Macro-Regions in Times of Crises: Long-Term Historiographic Perspectives
- Migrants in Crisis in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Memories of a French Migration Crisis: The Harkis
- Decolonization, Nation Building, and Migration Crises in Southeast Asia
- Migration Crisis and “Brexit”
- Refugee and Romani Immigrant Populations in Barcelona
- The Myth of a Migration Crisis in France: Transformations of Public Actions and Solidarist Actions
- The Manufacturing of the US-Mexico Border Crisis
- Refugees in the United States and the Politics of Crisis
- The Politics of the Refugee Crisis in Hungary: Bordering and Ordering the Nation and Its Others
- East Asian Exceptionalism to Western Populism and Migration Crisis
- Central American Refugees Reveal the Crisis of the State
- Conflicting Perspectives on the “Migrant Crisis” in the Horn of Africa
- Precarious Mobility in Central America and Southern Mexico: Crises and the Struggle to Survive
- Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s
- Syrian Refugees and Turkey: Whose “Crisis”?
- Climate-Migration Responses in the Pacific Region
- Migration and Environmental Crises in Africa
- Effects of Climate Change on Migration Crises in Oceania
- Climate Change and Migration Crisis in Africa
- “Refugee Crisis” in the Southeastern European Countries: The Rise and Fall of the Balkan Corridor
- Wars and Migration Crises in Central America: On Missing Persons during Armed Conflict and International Migration
- Afghan Experiences of Displacement
- Migration Crises in Turkey
- Managing the “Refugee Crisis” along the Balkan Route: Field Notes from Serbia
- The Criminalization of Migration in Canada and Its Unintended Policy Consequences
- Violence at the US-Mexico Border
- Regional Migration and Argentina’s “Hospitality” in Crisis
- Australia and People Seeking Asylum who Arrive by Boat
- The Crisis Mentality of Russian Migration Management
- The United States and Migration Crises: Refugees in the Past and Present
- Deportation, Crisis, and Social Change
- Ethics and Migration Crises
- Migration Flows and Migration Crisis in Southern Europe
- Narratives of Crisis Migration and the Power of Visual Culture
- Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts
- Gender and Social Exclusion in European Migration Crisis: A Sociohistorical Perspective
- LGBTQ Migration Crises
- The Post-Communist Identity Crisis and Queer Migration from Poland
- A Gendered Analysis of the European Refugee “Crisis”
- Human Trafficking as a Migration Crisis: Gender, Precariousness, and Access to Labor Rights
- Sanctuary and Unsettling “the” Refugee Crisis
- The Syrian Refugee Crisis, Multiculturalism Issues, and Integration in Canada
- Migration and Integration in China
- The Paradox of Immigrant Political Participation in Europe amidst Crises of Multiculturalism
- Migration to Australia in Times of Crisis
- Migration Crisis and Social Trauma
- The Crisis of Gulf Migration
- Index