Climate Displacement in the Shadow of War: Feminist Refugee Perspectives on Hydro-disaster

May 4, 2023 | UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender
3335 Dwinelle Hall
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Please join us for the fourth lecture in our Spring 2023 series “Moving Out of Harm’s Way: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Climate-related Mobilities.”

“Climate-related migration,” “disaster mobility,” and “climate refugees” have become salient topics in the last decade in both the political and scholarly realms. Most of the discourse looks to the future, with mass migrations expected in the wake of ever more severe climate change. These climate mobilities tend to be regarded as a novel phenomenon. Yet, they are not new: Although the scope of these mobilities has never been larger, environmental factors and disasters have played a role in the movement of people throughout history.