Mobility and climate justice in the Mashriq

Abstract

Today, we have a better understanding than ever of the social phenomena associated with anthropogenic climate change, especially climate-related human mobility. Research has confirmed that climate change mostly engenders South-South movements, internal displacement within the so-called Global South and immobility, thus essentially debunking the ongoing securitisation of so-called climate migration to the Global North. Studies have also underlined that the effects of climate change play out differently for already disenfranchised or marginalised groups and elites, and that this discrimination is rarely sufficiently addressed in negotiation processes linked to the issue of climate change.