Migranci czy uchodźcy? Prawne aspekty ochrony osób migrujących ze względu na negatywne zmiany środowiska naturalnego

• Authors: Kamila Groszkowska

Title variants

EN

Migrants or refugees? Legal aspects of protecting people migrating due to adverse effects of environmental change

Abstracts

EN

The article provides a general overview of the issue of environmentally induced migration. Despite having been a topic of climate change debate for over 30 years and a growing concern of the international community, environmentally displaced persons are not defined or described in any legally binding document. The first part of the article investigates difficulties with providing a definition of environmental migrants. Next, it examines different projects of international regulations and approaches. In the final section the author analyses the key issues of environmentally induced migration, namely: environmental factors, including slow and sudden onset events, characteristics of the movement, with focus on forced and cross-border migration and the appropriate terminology (migrant or refugee).

Keywords

EN

climate change; environmentally induced migration; climate refugees; environmentally displaced persons

• Publisher: Kancelaria Sejmu / Chancellery of the Sejm
• Journal: Studia BAS
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 4(60)
• Pages: 241-259

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Kamila Groszkowska

• Kancelaria Sejmu. Biuro Analiz Sejmowych

• https://orcid.org/0000000286181302

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31268/StudiaBAS.2019.39

Biblioteka Nauki

10563656