Migration and Borders in a Time of Climate Crisis

This course foregrounds the political implications of migration and border regimes in the context of environmental change, historically, today, and in the future. It examines in what sense environmental and climate factors might be causally related to human movement. We will seek to understand the fears of a future “climate refugee crisis,” and how states and security regimes are already preparing for climate displacement. Furthermore, we will ask how migrant justice groups are challenging the closed-border policies of many states in ‘the Global North’ as well as the global structural inequalities that create the vulnerabilities that drive movement and migration.