Rethinking the Politics of Climate-Induced Human (Im)Mobility

The nexus between climate change and human mobility has moved from the margins to the centre of both policy and academic debate. Yet the dominant conceptual and political framework remains analytically contested, legally fragile, and politically problematic. This panel invites contributions that interrogate, complicate, or move beyond dominant framings of climate-induced mobility, engaging with the politics of categorisation, the governance gaps, and the comparative empirical realities of climate and migration across different regional contexts.
We welcome papers addressing: the interaction between climatic, economic, social, and political factors in shaping mobility decisions; the role of gender, class, and ethnicity in mediating vulnerability and mobility; climate (im)mobility dynamics in the Pacific Islands, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Central America, and the Mediterranean; the divergence between Global North and Global South experiences and policy responses; the limitations of existing international protection frameworks; regional and bilateral responses to climate-induced displacement, including the role of non-stae actors; the issue of climate immobility.