Climate crisis and migration

Learning goals

This capsule offers in-depth learning regarding the relationship between climate change and the global movement of people, how this affects their lives, what actions are being taken by countries both in the Global North and South, and what can be done to address this issue.

With the collaboration of:

• Understanding the interrelationships between the global climate crisis and the movement of people.
• Understanding recent developments in how the interaction between these two phenomena is perceived and what political action is being taken in both the Global North and South.

• Analyse the relationship between the climate crisis and the different forms of human mobility (and immobility) around the world, as well as the political responses to this.
• Analyse the approach towards the right to asylum for those seeking refuge from the consequences of the climate crisis.
• Apply a critical, anticolonial and intersectional perspective in the analysis of the relationship between the climate crisis and human mobility.

• Show interest and critical attitude towards the issues of the climate and environmental crisis and migration and refuge.
• Commit to defending climate and environmental justice, as well as the right to asylum in general, in particular for those suffering the effects of the climate crisis and environmental exploitation.