Environmental Change and Migration: Critically Examining the Explicit Debates, Implicit Theories, and Underlying Assumptions
Workshop
Friday, 08 November 2013 to Saturday, 09 November 2013
ODID, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB
Hosted by International Migration Institute
About this workshop
This workshop aims to help masters and doctoral students to identify and contextualize the key debates on environmental change and migration as well as to critically examine the fundamental theories and epistemological questions underpinning environmental change and migration research. It will provide students with a syllabus of key texts on environmental change and migration from a variety of disciplines, lectures by leading researchers, and facilitated discussion sessions.
This postgraduate workshop is supported by The Hague Process on Migration and Refugees and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford.
Panel 1: Contextualizing and conceptualizing environmental change and migration
Political and historical context in which environmental change and migration has emerged as a policy concern and research field
Andrew Baldwin, Durham University
Will the environmentally-induced migrant step forward? The emergence and consequences of migration categories
Oliver Bakewell, International Migration Institute
Normative debates: Understanding the ethical and rights-based perspectives on environmental change and migration
François Gemenne, IDDRI, Sciences Po
Chair: Roger Zetter
Panel 2: Theorizing Environmental Change and Migration
Forced or voluntary? Assessing issues of agency in environmental change and migration process
Ayla Bonfiglio, International Migration Institute and UNU-MERIT, University of Maastricht
Climate factors integrated into a theory of international migration determinants
Christopher Parsons, International Migration Institute
Environmental change and displacement: palliative humanitarianism or developmental challenge
Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Chair: Oliver Bakewell
Panel 3: Testing Environmental Change and Migration and Advancing the Field
Re-examining our research questions: Grappling with causality and complexity, ontological analyses versus normative claims, and epistemological and ethical frameworks
Calum T.M. Nicholson, Department of Geography, Swansea University
Institutional and normative alternatives to study environmental change and migration
Alexander Betts, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Where to next? A case study from political ecology
Hein de Haas, International Migration Institute
Chair: François Gemenne