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Concluding remarks: on the politics of climate change, migration and human rights

Baldwin, W.A.

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Dimitra Manou
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Dug Cubie
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Teresa Thorp
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Anja Mihr
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Abstract

From 2011 to 2015, the author had the good fortune to chair a major European research initiative called 'Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, Law and Policy, and Theory'. This chapter represents a small but important slice of the wider COST dialogue on climate change and migration. Two important observations can be drawn from the foregoing comparison between Bronen and Mihr. The first concerns the value of postcolonial theory in coming to terms with the politics of constructing climate change, migration and human rights as a universal site of knowledge formation. The second important observation that is at stake in the discussion about climate change, migration and human rights is that it contains a full-fledged politics of place. The chapter explains that act of assuming responsibility for those who migrate because of climate change on the grounds that such a migration violates their human rights adopts a universal ethical responsibility in relation to the migrant.

Citation

Baldwin, W. (2017). Concluding remarks: on the politics of climate change, migration and human rights. In D. Manou, W. A. Baldwin, D. Cubie, T. Thorp, & A. Mihr (Eds.), Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights: Law and Policy Perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622217

Acceptance Date Oct 31, 2016
Online Publication Date May 11, 2017
Publication Date 2017-05
Deposit Date Oct 31, 2016
Publicly Available Date Oct 25, 2022
Publisher Routledge
Series Title Routledge Studies in Environmental Migration, Displacement and Resettlement
Edition 1st ed.
Book Title Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights: Law and Policy Perspectives
Chapter Number 14
ISBN 9781138655942
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622217

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights: Law and Policy Perspectives on 11 May 2017, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138655942





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