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This presentation zooms in on the aspects of the European Union’s (EU) rhetoric on climate mobility. Even though the EU has recognized the direct link between climate change and increased migration into the EU (European Commission 2019, 2020), this connection is seldom explicitly addressed in its policies. The European Green Deal strategy, which lays down the principals for Europe to gradually become climate-neutral, was first presented in 2019. The newest proposal...
This study focuses on the role of support networks in the integration process of Ghanaian immigrants to Canada. While social support networks - identified as social relationships that surround an individual and the characteristics of those linkages, have been widely argued to shape the immigrants’ pre- and post-migration experience, their presence, and roles are neither self-evident nor constant. Common conceptualizations of social support exchange which involves “the social resources that...
The discussions on the climate change–human (im)mobility nexus have received academic and policy attention. These debates revolve around two dominant populations: trapped populations and voluntary immobile populations. In order to situate the latter group in place-based research in Africa, this paper employs 36 qualitative in-depth interviews to examine voluntary immobility amidst climate change–induced r...