7.30 pm – Online – Language: English (mit deutscher Simultanübersetzung)
As a result of climate change, environmental disasters are increasing, vital resources such as water and fertile soil are becoming scarce, and entire regions are turning uninhabitable. Not just in the future, but already today. Based on this, there is the demand for the recognition of climate crisis as a reason for migration. On the other hand, activists and migration researchers warn that social and economic factors are made invisible. At the same time, right-wing groups and parties try to instrumentalize “climate migration” for their nationalist ideology and fabricate a threat to Europe by “climate refugees”. In this way, they legitimize further isolation and border protection and pursue climate protection as “combating migration”.
Can a progressive position on climate and refugees be developed against this background? A position that takes into account the destructive power of climate change, which is mainly caused in the global North, and at the same time resists appropriation from the right?
Dr. Maya Goodfellow (University College London) will speak about the usefulness of the term “climate migration”.
