Border and Migration Controls and Migrant Precarity in the Context of Climate Change

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dc.contributor.authorBates-Eamer, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-21T20:13:23Z
dc.date.available2019-11-21T20:13:23Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractClimate change impacts natural and human systems, including migration patterns. But isolating climate change as the driver of migration oversimplifies a complex and multicausal phenomenon. This article brings together the literature on global migration and displacement, environmental migration, vulnerability and precarity, and borders and migration governance to examine the ways in which climate-induced migrants experience precarity in transit. Specifically, it assesses the literature on the ways in which states create or amplify precarity in multiple ways: through the use of categories, by externalizing borders, and through investments in border infrastructures. Overall, the paper suggests that given the shift from governance regimes purportedly based on protection and facilitation to regimes based on security, deterrence, and enforcement, borders are complicit in producing and amplifying the vulnerability of migrants. The phenomenon of climate migration is particularly explicative in demonstrating how these regimes, which categorize individuals based on why they move, are and will continue to be unable to manage future migration flows.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipFinancial support provided from Borders in Globalization, a partnership grant funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (Grant no: 895-2012-1022), and from the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria.en_US
dc.identifier.citationhttps://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8070198en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8070198
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11337
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectenvironmental migration
dc.subjectborder controls
dc.subjectmigration policy
dc.subjectprecarity
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.titleBorder and Migration Controls and Migrant Precarity in the Context of Climate Changeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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