Climate and political refugee migrations trends
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Stratfor
In the ideological and geopolitical struggle between the Muslim world and the Western world, all choices are bad.
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UK Government
Foresight report looking at how changes in environmental conditions will affect patterns of human migration.
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Migration Policy
ARTICLE: Numerous researchers and organizations have predicted that climate change will trigger historically unprecedented waves of mass migration. MPI's Carolina Fritz examines the complex links between climate change and migration, how and where these links influence current and future migration patterns, and some of the problems with predicting future flows.
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Migrations Map
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Global Migration
Global Migration Data Sheet 2013: Unique estimates of migration flows between the top 50 sending and receiving countries.
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Migration Policy
Program: Use our interactive maps to learn about international migration, including immigrant and emigrant populations by country and trends in global migration since 1960. One of these maps was referred to by a news organization as "addictive" and "a font of fun facts."
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Life Hack
This infographics that covers living costs in the entire world. If you are considering emigration to another country, you might find it useful.
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The Atlantic
Imagine that civil wars in Central America doubled the number of undocumented immigrants entering the United States. Now imagine all those migrants heading to California.
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Stratfor
The world is gearing up to deal with El Nino. Last year saw dry conditions in Central America and the Caribbean, and these ongoing weather patterns will likely extend them into 2016.
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Stratfor
The influx of foreigners can forestall the economic problems that come with demographic decline, but it can also spark political conflict.
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Washington Post
Germany doesn't only want refugees, it actually really needs them.
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Stratfor
The migration of large populations has often stirred political controversy on the Continent.
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Stratfor
This map highlights why differences among EU states will deter cohesive solutions to the flood of asylum seekers.
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Washington Post
Many German communities have been generous to the influx of refugees, but tensions are rising.
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New York Times
Areas of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could threaten human life, a study says.
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Stratfor
People are still arriving in Europe en masse from Syria and elsewhere while Berlin is desperately trying to find a solution.
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The Conversation
Poorer cities are spending less on dealing with the consequences of global warming, even relative to their wealth.
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MIT Center for International Studies
October 21, 2015Starr Forum: Global Refugee CrisisA panel discussion with Jennifer Leaning, Nahuel Arenas, Ali Aljundi, and Serena ParekhModerated by Anna Ha...
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Scientific American
In his final U.N. address, the president says inaction will lead to more unrest
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DW
Germany's Criminal Police Office have registered a growing number of crimes in refugee and asylum centers. Now the interior minister wants to keep track of crimes committed by, and targeted at, migrants.
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American Herald Tribune
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Reddit
598 votes, 82 comments. 18.5m members in the Documentaries community. tl;dw
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Stratfor
As Venezuela's economy continues to struggle, Brazil and Colombia expect even more of its citizens to flee.
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World Economic Forum
http://www.weforum.org/Unresolved violent conflict and increasing persecution have led to a rise in refugee flows around the world. Beyond providing safety a...
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Stratfor
We live in an age of walls. In the 1990s pundits regularly celebrated the end of walls (along with the end of history), insisting that the fall of the Iron Curtain marked a new age of low borders and high interconnection. In many ways, they were right; cross-border flows of goods, people, capital and information have exploded across the last quarter-century. However, in other ways they were wrong.
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The National
How anti-immigration voices may soon bring the downfall of some of Europe’s most powerful leaders»»» Subscribe to The National to watch more videos here: h...
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Stratfor
For the past month, incidents of violence against foreign Africans living in South Africa have been on the rise. The violence has targeted foreigners from countries across the African continent, but Nigerians have increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs. Citizens in Nigeria, in turn, have begun attacking South African businesses in their country and calling for their withdrawal. If the vio
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New York Times
Climate displacement is becoming one of the world’s most powerful — and destabilizing — geopolitical forces.
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Russia Today
Muslim migrants who refuse to embrace European values must realize there are better places for them to reside than in the EU, Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German Finance Minister has said.
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The Guardian
If warming is not tackled, levels of humid heat that can kill within hours will affect millions across south Asia within decades, analysis finds
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Stratfor
India's government is holding talks with Bangladesh and Myanmar about a plan to deport about 40,000 Rohingya that New Delhi says are inside the country illegally, an Indian Interior Ministry representative said Aug. 11, Reuters reported.
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The Guardian
The small Louisiana town of Cameron could be the first in the US to be fully submerged by rising sea levels – and yet locals, 90% of whom voted for Trump, still aren’t convinced about climate change
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ECFR
The total absence of European policies to address climate-driven migration from Africa is deeply concerning
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Bloomberg
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Scientific American
Storms and heavy rainfall events that cause flooding are expected to become more severe
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VICE
Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking throu...
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VICE
VICE sits down with British politician and humanitarian David Miliband to talk about his work at the International Rescue Committee, the state of affairs in ...
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Rolling Stone
Jeff Goodell reports: Extreme weather due to climate change displaced more than a million people from their homes last year and could reshape nation.
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LSE
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New York Times
Immigrants have often delivered economic benefits to the countries taking them in, but they have also upended the politics of the industrialized world — where the native-born often exaggerate their numbers and their needs.
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EU
New World Atlas of Desertification shows unprecedented pressure on the planet's natural resources
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PRI
Migration isn't caused just by violence and failing governments: Climate-related problems such as drought, extreme storms and excessive heat have pushed many small farmers in Central America to leave their land and head north.
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The Conversation
In 2017 18.8 million people were displaced by natural disasters, with floods accounting for 8.6 million. Climate change is poised to drive those numbers higher still.
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Digital Journal
Deepening climate change will swell Central American migration to the United States, the region's environment ministers and experts warned Tuesday as a caravan of mostly Honduran migrants trekked towards the US border in defiance of President Donald Tr...
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Slate
Trump’s response to the caravan is part of a wider push to close doors at exactly the time we need to be opening them.
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The New Yorker
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.
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The Guardian
The ex-US secretary of state, speaking at a Guardian Live event, predicts mass movement from Africa
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IPS News
As he milks his cow, Salvadoran Gilberto Gomez laments that poor harvests, due to excessive rain or drought, practically forced his three children to leave the country and undertake the risky journey,
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CFR
What is a refugee? A quarter billion people worldwide live outside their country of nationality . One-tenth of them are refugees. While most migrants are fleeing poverty and seeking opportunity, refugees are running from acute threats: barrel bombs in Syria, razed villages in Myanmar, or repression and crime in Venezuela.
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Climate Guide
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Technology Review
In 2006, the British economist Nicholas Stern warned that one of the biggest dangers of climate change would be mass migration. “Climate-related shocks have sparked violent conflict in the past,” he wrote, “and conflict is a serious risk in areas such as West Africa, the Nile Basin, and Central Asia.” More than a decade later…
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The Atlantic
A software program called “Annie” uses machine learning to place refugees in cities where they are most likely to be welcomed and find success.
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Technology Review
To be an undocumented refugee, these days, is to exist in many places and to not exist at all. It is to have your movements, words, and actions tracked, archived, and multiplied. It is to live between fences, tents, and databases—one new entry per doctor’s visit, per bag of rice, per canister of water. It…
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The Guardian
Right to life is likely to be undermined alongside the rule of law, special rapporteur says
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Vice
The climate crisis has already created millions of invisible refugees and could create up to 1.5 billion more in the next 30 years. But under international law no country is obliged to take them in.
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Physics Org
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Stratfor
The U.S.-Mexican border is in some fundamental ways arbitrary. The line of demarcation defines political and military relationships, but does not define economic or cultural relationships. The borderlands -- and they run hundreds of miles deep into the United States at some points -- have extremely close cultural and economic links with Mexico. Where there are economic links, there always are move
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Scientific American
Recent rains have helped, but long-term climate change is likely to significantly increase migration
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Advances
Humans’ ability to efficiently shed heat has enabled us to range over every continent, but a wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35°C marks our upper physiological limit, and much lower values have serious health and productivity impacts. Climate models project the first 35°C TW occurrences by the mid-21st century. However, a comprehensive evaluation of weather station data shows that some coastal su
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The New York Times
Researchers said that by 2070 extreme heat could encompass a much larger part of Africa, as well as parts of India, the Middle East, South America, Southeast Asia and Australia.
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Gizmodo
Brain geniuses like Elon Musk may want to colonize Mars, which sure. But for simpletons like me, keeping Earth mostly habitable seems like a better use of time and resources.
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National Review
It could send millions to Europe.
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Propublica
ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found.
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The New York Times Magazine
New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how.
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The Guardian
Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds
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ASU Now
Professors Ashley Broadbent and Matei Georgescu of ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning used state-of-the-art modeling tools to analyze how three key variables would affect human exposure to extreme temperatures from the beginning of this century to its end.
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The Guardian
Countries unable to withstand ecological threats among worlds least peaceful, analysis finds
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Propublica
Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?
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Foreign Policy
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Governing
The coronavirus has delayed immigration processes, suspended jobs that might have provided VISAs and made the future for non-citizens even more uncertain. “There are many people who are struggling right now.”
