Poor Southerners are Joining the Globe’s Climate Migrants
By Lewis Raven Wallace, Environmental Health News
Many residents of government-subsidized housing have already become climate migrants, in New Orleans, Miami, Houston, and Puerto Rico.
Tag: migration
Beyond Borders
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
International migration, then, is controversial every which way you choose to look at it. So let me take a deep breath and try to define a pragmatism of my own around the issue
The Trump Administration Knows the Planet is Going to Boil. It Doesn’t Care
By Bill McKibben, The Guardian blog
The World Bank predicts we may see 140 million climate migrants before long, and given the chaos that even a million people fleeing the (partially drought-fueled) crisis in Syria created, we better come to grips.
The Migrant Quilt: Re-Stitching the Fabric of Community
By Valarie Lee James, Open Democracy
Women on the border often have a different take on immigration issues: more of a ‘tend and befriend’ approach, a kind of common sense, needle-to-fabric mend. The responses of women to the Migrant Quilt exhibit define the soft heart of what it means to be human.
Regeneration Project Granada – a New Approach to Migration
By Eroles Project staff, Transition Network
I am part of a group of 12 people living in the village of Saleres, Valle de Lecrín, close to Granada in Spain. We come from Europe, West Africa, South America and the Middle East. Some of us are called refugees, others expats, some locals, others migrants and some foreigners.
Integrating Southern Perspectives around Degrowth and Migration
By Miriam Lang, Degrowth.de
We are currently facing the most severe migration crisis in history. But this is only one dimension of a broader civilizational crisis. Thus, anti-racist movements should not focus solely on issues of human mobility rights, but also build new paths of solidarity with societies in the geopolitical Global South.
Welcoming Night
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
These are people who found a tiny and overcrowded raft, floating on the open ocean, safer than their homes. See what you can do where you live -- you probably can't do much, but you might be able to do a little.
Climate stories: Environment, Colonial Legacies and Systemic Change
By Anna Lau, Open Democracy
Meaningful action on climate change today means nothing less than widespread paradigm shifts across social, economic, political, cultural, and built infrastructures.
Our Family, Our Future: My Global Migration Pledge
By Taj James, Let's Talk Movement Building
As I write this, the bodies of hundreds of people are being pulled from the water off the coast of Libya, after two boats sank, drowning women, men, and children migrating in desperation from places like Syria, Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa.
Migrants and Refugees
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
One of the elements of the Twitter conversation this week, after the body of the three year old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi was found on a Greek beach, was an attempt to shift the language about the Syrian tragedy and those fleeing it, from “migrants” to “refugees.”