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McAdam, Jane --- "Refusing 'Refuge' in the Pacific: (De)Constructing Climate-Induced Displacement in International Law" [2010] UNSWLRS 27

University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series

Refusing 'Refuge' in the Pacific: (De)Constructing Climate-Induced Displacement in International Law [2010] UNSWLRS 27 (8 July 2010)

Last Updated: 9 July 2010

Jane McAdam, University of New South Wales

This paper is available for download at http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps10/art27/

Citation

This chapter is forthcoming in E. Piguet, A. Pécoud and P. de Guchteneire (eds), Migration, Environment and Climate Change (UNESCO, Paris).

Abstract

This paper challenges calls for a new international treaty for ‘climate refugees’ or ‘climate migrants. Drawing in part on field work undertaken in Kiribati and Tuvalu, it examines some conceptual and pragmatic difficulties in attempting to construct a refugee-like instrument for people fleeing the effects of climate change, and critiques whether there are legal, as opposed to political, benefits to be gained by advocating for such an instrument.