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Introduction Introduction
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Voluntarily Enacted Climate Mobilities Voluntarily Enacted Climate Mobilities
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Involuntarily Enacted Climate Mobilities Involuntarily Enacted Climate Mobilities
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Staying in Place as Collective Action Staying in Place as Collective Action
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How Receiving Societies Respond to Climate-Related Mobilities How Receiving Societies Respond to Climate-Related Mobilities
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Refugees, Displaced Persons, or Economic Migrants? Climate-Related Migration and Implications for Migration Classificatory Systems
Get accessCecilia Menjívar holds the Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. She specializes in immigration, gender, family dynamics, social networks, religious institutions, and broad conceptualizations of violence. She focuses on two main areas: the impacts of the immigration regime and laws on immigrants and the effects of living in contexts of multisided violence on individuals, especially women. Her work on immigration concerns mainly the United States, where she focuses on Central American immigrants, whereas her work on violence is centered on Latin America, mostly Central America. Dr. Menjívar’s work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, International Migration Review, and Ethnic & Racial Studies, among other journals. Her most recent publications include the edited volume, Constructing Immigrant Illegality: Critiques, Experiences, and Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2014), the book Immigrant Families (Polity Press, 2016), and the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Immigration Crises (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Published:20 March 2025
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Abstract
This chapter examines the collective nature of mobility responses generated in response to climate change. Whether impacted populations are forcibly displaced, relocate to preserve livelihoods, or strive to remain in place, myriad social, economic, political, and biophysical changes that unfold in a changing climate often induce collective action geared toward ameliorating the challenges of relocation or preserving place-based social and cultural ties. Climate-related mobilities are difficult to categorize within existing migration classificatory systems. This further complicates the prospects for vulnerable populations to obtain support, protection, and the capacity to exercise self-determination in deciding if, when, and how to move as the effects of climate change become more pronounced. This chapter takes a global perspective with special attention to cases in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa, as well as the Global North.
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