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Fig.10.5 Totalnumberofnewinternallydisplacedbynaturaldisasters2008–2016. DataSource
InternalDisplacementMonitoringCentre2016
10.3 UnderstandingResettlement
Whether internalor international, theeffectsofdisplacementcontinuemuchbeyond
themomentofdeparture,andassuchwebrieflyaddress the literatureontheprocess
ofresettlement.Thissectionprovidesanoverviewofthespacesandchallengesfaced
bythedisplacedintheprocessofresettling,includingthoseforthevoluntarymigrant
aswell as the refugee.
The figure of the voluntarymigrant is often cast as onemotivated by rational
choicesandsystematicdecisions.Whileconversationsregardingrefugeesareframed
largelythroughquestionsoftherighttoasylumandthepoliticsofconflict, themigra-
tionquestion is consumedbyquestions regarding their capacity tocontribute to the
healthandsuccessof the local economywithoutdetracting fromlocal employment
orhost communityculture (DeckardandHeslin2016).The framingofmigration in
termsofeconomiccontributioncategorises thedesirabilityand,subsequently, legal-
ityofmigrants inaspace(Golash-Boza2015).Thus,anticipating theways inwhich
environmentalmigrants are receivedbyahost country is amatter ofunderstanding
the economic desirability of that specific group in the country,which is subject to
changewithvariations in theeconomicsituationof the receivingareaorcountry.
In the United States, for example, immigrants of Hispanic and Latino orig-
in—often crossing the nation’s Southern border escaping a difficult-to-disentangle
combinationofdegradednatural resources,corruption,gangviolenceandeconomic
disarray(BenderandArrocha2017)—representasignificantsourceofmigrantlabor
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Title
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Subtitle
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Authors
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Publisher
- Springer Open
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 580
- Keywords
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Categories
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima