Climate change and migration
Subtitle: security and borders in a warming world
By: Gregory White
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780199794829; 9780199794836
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Climatic changes; Global environmental change; Social aspects; Environmental aspects; Global warming
Description: Focusing on climate-induced migration from Africa to Europe White shows how global warming's impact on international relations has been significant, enhancing the security regimes in not only the advanced economies of the North Atlantic, but in the states that serve as transit points between the most advanced and desperate nations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Climate-induced migration : an essentially contested concept; title: Scope and dimensions : Sahelian and Sub-Saharan African migration to Europe; title: The "securitization" of climate-induced migration; title: Transit states and the thickening of borders; title: Pulling back the curtain on the security oz : multilateral governance and genuine sustainability in a warming world.