Environmental Migrants and Canada’s Refugee Policy

Canada is among the world's foremost refugee resettlement countries and is signatory to international agreements that affirm its commitment to the protection of refugee rights. Asylum seekers come to Canada from around the globe. But as climate change continues to affect growing regions of the world -- threatening to create as many as 200 million environmental migrants by the year 2050 -- Canada has not yet begun to address the issue of climate change migration. In an era defined by a neo-liberal approach to migration issues, and until international actors determine the status of environmental migrants, Canada's policy response to the looming crisis may be conjectured from an historical review of its refugee policy. This provides an understanding of the various factors, both domestic and international, that may have the greatest influence on Canada's future refugee policy.

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Environmental migrants and Canada's refugee policy

10.32920/ryerson.14663328.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sheila Murray

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Historical Review ◽

International Agreements ◽

Policy Response ◽

Refugee Resettlement ◽

Refugee Policy ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Liberal Approach

Canada is among the world's foremost refugee resettlement countries and is signatory to international agreements that affirm its commitment to the protection of refugee rights. Asylum seekers come to Canada from around the globe. But as climate change continues to affect growing regions of the world -- threatening to create as many as 200 million environmental migrants by the year 2050 -- Canada has not yet begun to address the issue of climate change migration. In an era defined by a neo-liberal approach to migration issues, and until international actors determine the status of environmental migrants, Canada's policy response to the looming crisis may be conjectured from an historical review of its refugee policy. This provides an understanding of the various factors, both domestic and international, that may have the greatest influence on Canada's future refugee policy.

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Women and Climate Change

Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190927097.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 5-23

Author(s):

Laura McKinney ◽

Arianna King

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

West African ◽

Political Organizations ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Women's Role ◽

Political Economic ◽

Disproportionate Burden ◽

Status Of Women

Abstract: This chapter aims to contribute to discussions concerning the global oppression of women by highlighting the ways in which the status of women intersects with climate change throughout the world. Empirical research shows that women’s representation in political organizations and their incorporation into decision-making processes are associated with lower contributions to climate change and overall improvements in sustainability across nations. These findings suggest that the status of women has a substantive bearing on the environmental and ecological future of the planet. Other research shows that women’s role as primary producers of food for the household results in a disproportionate burden of climate change for women, who leverage myriad strategies to adapt to changing conditions. In reviewing past qualitative and quantitative findings on climate change and women, the chapters focuses on the West African nation of Ghana, arguing that development and environmental policies would benefit from greater sensitivity to the ways in which climate change shapes women’s social, political, and economic opportunities. In doing so, the chapter utilizes ecofeminist theories to highlight critical links to achieving greater gender equality across social, political, economic, and environmental lines.

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RESPONSE TO REFUGE ISSUES IN INDONESIAN IMMIGRATION LENS IN IMMIGRATION DETENTION HOUSES

Journal of Law and Border Protection ◽

10.52617/jlbp.v3i1.211 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 87-101

Author(s):

Hana Farah Dhiba ◽

Wahyu Eka Putra

Keyword(s):

Armed Conflict ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Director General ◽

Legal Research ◽

African Countries ◽

Refugee Status ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Special Concern ◽

Refugees And Asylum Seekers

The phenomenon of refugees is one of the topics of discussion in the international world. This situation was triggered by the increasing number of refugees scattered in various countries around the world. The existence of refugees is often a special concern for countries that are both transit places and destinations. In Indonesia, tens of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers stop and live. Some of the Arab and African countries and ethnic Rohingya who are hit by armed conflict and acute poverty. They lived for years while waiting for a third country. Their existence is increasingly causing various problems in society. The research uses normative legal research methods with 7 approaches. From the research results, it can be concluded that the presence of refugees in Indonesia has been going on for decades. The refugees entered by land and sea routes to Indonesian territory. Various policies have been taken to deal with the presence of refugees from abroad, one of which is Presidential Regulation Number 125 of 2016 concerning Policies for Handling Refugees from Abroad. However, over time, the refugee status intersected with the status of illegal immigrants contained in the regulation of the Director General of Immigration. This in the future raises various problems related to the handling of refugees in Indonesia.

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Distribution and Important Areas for the Conservation of Amphibians in the Province of Seville, Spain: Identifying Priorities

Hydrobiology ◽

10.3390/hydrobiology1010004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 39-46

Author(s):

Eduardo José Rodríguez-Rodríguez ◽

Rafael Carmona-González

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Emerging Diseases ◽

Habitat Destruction ◽

Critical Importance ◽

The South ◽

Conservation Areas ◽

Conservation Measures ◽

The World ◽

The Status

Amphibians are among the most threatened vertebrates in the world due to habitat destruction, emerging diseases, and climate change, and therefore, it is of critical importance to identify the risk and conservation measures for their populations. In this work, we aimed to identify the status of amphibian distribution in the province of Seville, in the south of Spain. We additionally wanted to identify critical conservation areas and propose measures of conservation for the whole community as well as specific taxa. To do this, we mapped the distribution of amphibians using our own data and bibliography and translated it into a 10 × 10 km2 UTM grid. Our work has allowed us to identify several areas of importance for amphibians in the province and populations of some species that need special attention.

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Inclusive Resettlement? Integration Pathways of Resettled Refugees With Disabilities in Germany and Canada

Frontiers in Human Dynamics ◽

10.3389/fhumd.2021.668264 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

Annette Korntheuer ◽

Michaela Hynie ◽

Martha Kleist ◽

Safwathullah Farooqui ◽

Eva Lutter ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Asylum Seekers ◽

Forced Migration ◽

Refugee Resettlement ◽

Global Literature ◽

Intersectional Analysis ◽

The World ◽

Holistic Integration ◽

And Migration ◽

Definition Of ◽

Research Service

The purpose of this article is to explore the existing intersectional knowledge on integration and resettlement of refugees with disabilities in two of the top five resettlement countries in the world, Germany and Canada. There is limited research on the intersection of migration and disability, especially in the context of refugee resettlement. Reflecting the dominant pathways of migration in each country, what little research there is focuses on asylum seekers in Germany, and immigrants in Canada. The review describes settlement programs in each country. We draw from the global literature around forced migration and disability, as well as disability and migration more broadly in each country, to enhance the limited existing research and conduct an intersectional analysis at the level of systems, discourses and subjective narratives. Findings highlight three dominant themes that weave across all three levels: being a “burden” on society, being invisible, and agency and resistance. Finally, drawing from the theoretical stance of Disability Studies, critical, and holistic integration theories we discuss how this intersectional analysis highlights the importance of reshaping the policies, discourse and definition of integration, and the consequences this can have on research, service delivery, and evaluation of integration and resettlement.

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Carbon Brief

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-22695 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Leo Hickman

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Data Driven ◽

Policy Response ◽

Award Winning ◽

The World ◽

The Uk ◽

The Guardian ◽

Key Stage 3

<p>Leo Hickman will outline his experience of communicating climate change as a journalist and author. Leo has edited the award-winning Carbon Brief since 2015. The UK-based website specialises in publishing clear, data-driven articles and graphics to help improve the understanding of climate change, both in terms of the science and the policy response. Before joining Carbon Brief, Leo spent 16 years at the Guardian as a features journalist and editor covering the environment, particularly climate change. Leo has also authored several books, including "Will Jellyfish Rule the World?" (Puffin, 2009), which explained climate change to Key Stage 3 children.</p>

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The Cul-de-Sac of Postcolonial Theory: Negotiation or Negation?

10.36583/2016020210 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (Winter) ◽

pp. 168-181

Author(s):

Shereen Abuelnaga

Keyword(s):

Contact Zone ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Power Relations ◽

Postcolonial Theory ◽

Life Stories ◽

The West ◽

Immigrants And Refugees ◽

Cultural Negotiation ◽

The World ◽

The Status

The escalating wave of migration and its discontents that the world is witnessing now challenges some aspects that form the backbone of postcolonial theory through revealing the inefficiency and invalidity of all the previous givens. Policed borders render the concept of hybridity and the horizon invalid. The attempt at eluding the politics of polarity could not survive the discursive and physical practices of several dislocated localities. Consequently, the “contact zone” that has always been the pride of the West, upon the assumption of hybridity, is shrinking now, if not fading. What should have been cultural negotiation came down to be cultural negation. This paper reads the status of the women asylum seekers who are locked in Yarl’s Wood Center in the U.K. as an example of the stark violations practiced against immigrants and refugees in general, and in the case of women, as an example of turning the female body into an arena onto which conflicting power relations are inscribed. However, the main goal of this reading is to prove the failure of postcolonial theory to cope with the fierce return of borders, material and symbolic. To do this, the paper assumes that the life stories of the women stand as a text/narrative that yields itself to analysis.

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From Kyoto to Paris

Promoting Global Environmental Sustainability and Cooperation - Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3990-2.ch002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 31-56

Author(s):

Moses Metumara Duruji ◽

Faith O. Olanrewaju ◽

Favour U. Duruji-Moses

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

National Interest ◽

International Agreements ◽

The Political ◽

Nation State ◽

United Nations Framework Convention ◽

The Earth ◽

The World ◽

Binding Agreement

The Earth Summit of 1992 held in Rio de Janeiro awakened the consciousness of the world to the danger of climate change. The establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change provided the platform for parties to negotiate on ways of moving forward. The global acknowledgement of the weightiness of the climate change and the future of the planet galvanized international agreements to this regard. Consequently, a landmark agreement was brokered in 1992 at Kyoto, Japan and 2015 in Paris, France. However, the strong issues of national interest tend to bedevil the implementation that would take the world forward on climate change. The chapter therefore examined multilateralism from the platform of climate change conferences and analyzed the political undertone behind disappointing outcomes even when most of the negotiators realized that the only way to salvage the impending doom is a multilateral binding agreement when nation-state can subsume their narrow interest.

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Putting Global Governance in Its Place

The World Bank Research Observer ◽

10.1093/wbro/lkz008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 1-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dani Rodrik

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Governance ◽

World Economy ◽

International Agreements ◽

Global Commons ◽

Multilateral Cooperation ◽

Cross Border ◽

The World ◽

Real Market

Abstract Greater interdependence is often taken to require more global governance, but the logic requires scrutiny. Cross-border spillovers do not always call for international rules. The canonical cases for global governance are based on two sets of circumstances: global commons and “beggar-thy-neighbor” (BTN) policies. The world economy is not a global commons (outside of climate change), and much of our current discussions deal with policies that are not true BTNs. Some of these are beggar-thyself policies; others may produce domestic benefits, addressing real market distortions or legitimate social objectives. The case for global governance in such policies, I will argue, is very weak, and possibly outweighed by the risk that global oversight or regulation would backfire. While these policy domains are certainly rife with failures, such failures arise not from weaknesses of global governance, but from failures of national governance and cannot be fixed through international agreements or multilateral cooperation. I advocate a mode of global governance that I call “democracy-enhancing global governance,” to be distinguished from “globalization-enhancing global governance.”

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