El Profesor de Geografía en la Universidad de Naciones Unidas, Kees van der Geest, analiza el reto social que suponen las migraciones climáticas.
Presentación proyectada en el Simposio Migraciones Climáticas celebrado en Madrid el 22 de Noviembre.
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Kees van der Geest "El reto social de las Migraciones Climáticas"
1. Simposio Migraciones Climáticas
Sesión 4: El reto social
Madrid, 22 November 2016
Dr Kees van der Geest
United Nations University, Bonn
Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
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4. Quienes somos: UNU-EHS/EMSVA
• Section: Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability
and Adaptation (EMSVA), established by Dr Koko
Warner
• Colleagues: Tamer Afifi, Christina Rademacher-Schultz,
Robert Oakes, Cosmin Corendea
• Focus : Relationship between environmental change &
human mobility
• Increasingly, the focus is on climate change
• Pioneers in this field:
• EACH-FOR (2007-2009): 23 case studies (Global)
• Rainfalls (2010-2012): 8 case studies (Global)
• PCCM (2013-2016): 3 case studies (Pacific region)
• MECLEP (2014-2016): 6 case studies (Global)
• And in the field of Loss and Damage (empirical research in
12 countries since 2012)
9. EACH-FOR: Environmental Change & Forced Migration
Scenarios (EU-FP6)
Tajikistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Egypt
Turkey
Mozambique
Vietnam
Morocco
Ghana
Senegal
Niger
Dominican
Republic, Haiti
Mexico
Ecuador
Argentina
Russia
China
Tuvalu
Bangladesh
Spain
The Balkans
Western
Sahara
Tajikistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Egypt
Turkey
Mozambique
Vietnam
Morocco
Ghana
Senegal
Niger
Dominican
Republic, Haiti
Mexico
Ecuador
Argentina
Russia
China
Tuvalu
Bangladesh
Spain
The Balkans
Western
Sahara
13. Changing questions:
•EACH-FOR:
• Exploratory question: Is there a relation between
environmental change and human mobility?
• “Where the rain falls”:
• “Under which conditions do people use migration as a
response to climate stressors?”
• PCCM + MECCLEP
• How to optimize migration outcomes?
16. Resilience to climatic stressors Vulnerability to climatic stressors
Migration
improves HH
resilience
Migration used to
survive, but not
flourish
Migration erosive
coping strategy
Migration not an
option: trapped
populations
• Economy: poor
• Adaptation options:
access to livelihoods
options &assets (social,
economic, political),
• Education: Children have
3-5 years more education
than parents
• Migrant: early 20s, single;
temporal migration
• Remittances: education,
livelihood diversification,
health
• Economy: chronically
food insecure, landless,
Female -headed HH
• Adaptation options:
insufficient assets to
adapt locally or through
migration
• Education:
• Migrant: not feasible
• Remittances: none.
Abandoned / trapped
populations
• Economy: landless
• Adaptation options: few
adaptation options in
situ, inability to diversify
• Education: All HH
members have low or no
education / skill levels
• Migrant: HH Head, mid
40s, migration in hunger
season
• Remittances: Partial
success in obtaining food
or money to buy food
• Economy: land scarce
• Adaptation options: less
access to assets &
institutions for support
• Education: Children have
same education level as
parents
• Migrant: HH Head, mid
40s, migration in hunger
season
• Remittances: Success in
obtaining food or money
to buy food
Global results: 4 household profiles
17. Trapped populations: People who are not able to migrate from
places in which they are vulnerable to environmental stressors
because they lack the means to move or because there are no
suitable migration destinations (Foresight, 2011).
20. Different patterns of migration 2005-2015
Kiribati Tuvalu
International Internal Trapped No movement
Nauru
21. ¿Dónde se están produciendo las mayores
migraciones climáticas?
• En muchos sitios donde…
• … Rain-fed agriculture
• … Close to subsistence
• … Low livelihood diversification
• … Access to migration opportunities (if not: trapped)
• En pocos sitios donde…
• … Impactos de cambio climático ya han hecho lugares
“no-habitables”
22. ¿A qué nos enfrentamos desde el punto de
vista social en los países de origen?
• Cambios y extremos climáticos son una realidad
• Amenaza los fuentes de comida y ingresos y la seguridad de
mucha gente, sobre todo los mas pobres
• Muchas veces se puede adaptar un situ sin migrarse, pero a
veces migración es la única opción y frecuentemente es una
buena opción.
• Tambien existen casos en que gente debería migrar pero no
puede (trapped populations)
23. Continuum
Forced
Displacement
Last resort
Loss and damage
Voluntary
Migration
Pro-active
Adaptation
• Enable adaptive migration which improves the situation of
migrants and their families; Avoid forced migration that
disrupts and leaves people worse’off.
• Act in time! Pro-active migration versus distress migration
• The power of language: Assisted migration versus
Resettlement
24. Last thought
When migration is a choice, people do not feel the
losses as much as when they are forced to move.
THANK YOU!
Contact: geest@ehs.unu.edu