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SUMMARY:The making of the ‘climate migrant’: how a label emerges and c
 irculates - David Durand-Delacre\, Department of Geography
DTSTART:20190430T121000Z
DTEND:20190430T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Jenny Zhao
DESCRIPTION:How we categorise migrants matters. The different implications
  of labelling for ‘political refugees’\, ‘asylum seekers’\, ‘eco
 nomic migrant’ or ‘illegal alien’ are important because each label c
 onditions the rights and conditions of the people designated. Since the mi
 d-1980s\, the ‘climate migrant’ label has gained traction among expert
 s in academia\, the press and policy-making circles. I begin by presenting
  the debate between ‘maximalism’ – which seeks to quantify climate-i
 nduced migratory flows and identify ‘climate migrants’ – and ‘mini
 malism’\, which disputes the usefulness of the ‘climate migrant’ lab
 el on analytical and practical grounds. This leaves us with a tension. On 
 the one hand\, minimalism has made a convincing case for a nuanced underst
 anding of the environment as one driver of mobility among many. On the oth
 er\, the ‘climate migrant’ label retains significant appeal\, and we m
 ust still contend with the inevitability of labelling\, which is inherentl
 y reductive. As a potential way out of this bind\, I argue that a critical
  study of ‘climate migrants’ should focus both on how the label is mad
 e – that is the discursive practices used to conceptualise\, contest and
  deploy it for policy purposes – but also on how the label circulates\, 
 asking questions such as: how does it spread? How does it evolve in the pr
 ocess? What facilitates or hinders its movement? Why and how does the labe
 l ‘stick’ to certain people and not to others? I end with some suggest
 ions for how we may begin to answer these questions\, drawing in particula
 r on multi-sited ethnography.\n\nDavid Durand-Delacre is a 1st year PhD st
 udent in the Geography Department.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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