"Migration as an environmental policy: pitfalls, opportunities, and rhetorics"

Une intervention de François Gemenne dans le cadre de la Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) Public Seminar Series, "Critical Approaches to Environmental Displacement", organisée par l'université d'Oxford.

Présentation de la série de séminaires [en anglais] :

"Environmental displacement is rapidly becoming the most voguish area of research and policy debate in forced migration. The overwhelming proportion of this research has been policy-led and has focused on exploring the causal relationship between environmental change and human displacement – often at a very macro-level of analysis. Far less common, though, has been an attempt to adopt a critical perspective to the debate on environmental displacement, which stands back and assesses the validity and politics of representation relating to existing claims to causal knowledge.

Drawing upon speakers from a range of disciplines - politics, anthropology, geography, philosophy - the series will convene an array of contributors whose work critically interrogates representations of the relationship between climate change, the environment, migration, and displacement. It will explore themes such as the politics of environmental displacement, the instrumental use of causal knowledge by different actors, and the basis on which social science can and cannot make meaningful claims about the relationship between the environment and displacement."

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