Global assessment of impacts on migration and security issues

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Border Conceptualisation in Environmental Migration: Anthropological questions, political concerns

The presentation considered the methodological challenges that will come from pitting the micro local understanding of borders against the macro institutions. It will discuss the potential theoretical collisions of anthropological discourses of notions of space, nature, and identity with policy literature on geo-political borders and the nation state. The limitations of quantitative studies in more complex and mixed motivations tied to cultural notions as well as the limitations of ethnographic studies in scaling up results to show more generalized tendencies. The argument will be made for a mixed methods approach that cover ethnographic case studies, policy literature, historical analogs, and individual surveys from a sampled population.Climate Change and Migratio

La sécheresse et les migrations au Burkina Faso

peer reviewedThis chapter provides an investigation of the policy in regards to migration as a strategic response to drought and desertification, with a focus on Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso: The Effects of Environmental Migration on the Implementation of Agro-ecological methods, Exchanges and Cooperation

This study addresses the surge in North-South internal migration in Burkina Faso that has accompanied the land degradation spurred by a series of severe droughts starting in the late 1960s (Lindqvist, Tengberg, 1993). Drawing from the hypotheses of Gray and Kevane (2001) and Deshinkar (2011) that link agricultural intensification to migration in Burkina Faso, this study aimed to discover to what extent the implementation and dissemination of sustainable agricultural initiatives in Burkina Faso occur between migrants and locals, thereby establishing links between strategies of mitigation and adaptation for migration. Results showed that the uptake of both modern and sustainable agricultural techniques has occurred primarily among migrants, most of whom have left their home villages due to drought and desertification. Furthermore, villages where land rights were secured by monetization rather than customary tenure experienced more cooperation between locals and migrants and with the extension services

Considering the role of tenure systems in the construction of boundaries of exclusion and inclusion in the context of environmental migration in West Africa: examples from Ghana and Burkina Faso

In a context of the debate increasingly shaped by security concerns,the panel session aims to re-imagine the institutional limitations on environmental migration within the context of traditionally fluid, contiguous borders such as those that exist in West Africa. Border conceptualization and re-conceptualization directly addresses the challenge posed by environmental migration to the political community in establishing national borders as a geographical obstacle to the right to live.COST Action: IS1101 Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, Law and Policy, and Theor

Les impacts du climat dans un monde de plus en plus globalisé

peer reviewedThe conceptual framework for the chapter is based on the notion of “transnational climate impacts” (Benzie et al, 2016). By this we mean impacts that will require adaptation in the EU as a result of climate change in other countries