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Environmental Refugees/Migrants Controversy Marco Agosta, Elisa Angelico, Michele Crivellaro, Elisa Raciti
Laboratorio di sintesi finale Politecnico di Milano A.Y. 2011/2011 M.Sc. Comunication Design Section c3
Laboratorio di sintesi finale Politecnico di Milano A.Y. 2011/2011 M.Sc. Comunication Design Section c3 Paolo Ciuccarelli Stefano Mandato Donato Ricci Tommaso Venturini Salvatore ZIngale
Islanders
Environmental Refugees/Migrants Controversy Marco Agosta, Elisa Angelico, Michele Crivellaro, Elisa Raciti
Laboratorio di sintesi finale Politecnico di Milano A.Y. 2011/2011 M.Sc. Comunication Design Section c3
Laboratorio di sintesi finale Politecnico di Milano A.Y. 2011/2011 M.Sc. Comunication Design Section c3 Paolo Ciuccarelli Stefano Mandato Donato Ricci Tommaso Venturini Salvatore ZIngale
Summary
Islanders story
Environmental Refugees vs Environmental Migrants Controversy timeline Controversy observations
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Common sites analysis Are the islands talking about themselves? Which Organizations talk about the controversy? Who Talks about the controversy?
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Environmental refugees vs environmental migrants
Environmental Refugee
Environmental Migrant
“A fundamental difficulty in dealing with this topic, however, is that there is still no agreed definition and typology of environmental refugees or migrants – and even less so in the case of the socalled climate refugees. Some events or phenomena relating to the environment that may lead to migration and provide the basis for a typology, include the following: natural disasters/sudden disasters; gradual environmental degradation/slowonset disasters; environmental conflicts; environmental destruction as a consequence of or as a weapon in conflicts; environment conservation; development projects (such as dam construction); industrial accidents (such as Bhopal and Chernobyl). There may be even further sub-categories based on distinctions such as: human-made or natural change; climate change-induced or all environmental change; temporary or permanent environmental change, temporary or permanent migration, internal or international/cross-border migration. Of course, it matters little for the people affected if a disaster is related to human-induced climate change or not, but for some research and policy purposes this may be a useful distinction.”
“People who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environmental disruption (natural and/ or triggered by people) that jeopardised their existence and/or seriously affected the quality of their life. By environmental disruption in this definition is meant any physical, chemical and/or biological changes in the ecosystem (or resource base) that render it, temporarily or permanently, unsuitable to support human life.”
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“Persons who no longer gain a secure livelihood in their traditional homelands because of what are primarily environmental factors of unusual scope.”
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Mustafa Tolba, Executive Director of UNEP, was claiming that “as many as 50 million people could become environmental refugees” if the world did not act to support sustainable development.
Norman Myers
IPCC IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared that the greatest single consequence of climate change could be migration, ”with millions of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and severe drought”.
Jodi Jacobson is cited as the first researcher to enumerate the issue, stating that there were already up to 10 million environmental refugees. Drawing on worst case scenarios about sea-level rise, she argued that all forms of environmental refugees would be six times as numerous as political refugees
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He is a United States environmental analyst, founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues. He introduces for the first time the term of enviromnental refugees.
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Norman Myers stated that there were 25 million environmental refugees in the mid1990s, and claiming that this figure could double by 2010, with an upper limit of 200 million by 2050. He also hypothesised that displacement would amount to 30m in China, 30m in India, 15m in Bangladesh, 14m in Egypt, 10m in other delta areas and coastal zones, 1m in island states, and with otherwise agriculturally displaced people totalling 50m.
Nivanga Boat Australian government donated the Nivanga boat to the Tuvaluan government migration and movement between the different atolls has considerably expanded. International support was provided for the establishment of numerous facilities, including a new administrative building, a hospital, a telecommunication centre, a wharf, and the development of the maritime school just outside of Funafuti. Migration from the outer islands to Funafuti boomed.
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Richard Black for first criticized Myers’ prediction and stated that “this notion of environmental refugees hardly tallies with arguments about recent destruction of the ecological balance by modern society; rather, migration is again perhaps better seen as a customary coping strategy.”
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Jane McAdam is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and the Director of Research in the Faculty of Law. She works widely in the area of international refugee law, in particular on complementary protection and climate change-related displacement. She argued that “climate change-induced migration and displacement are real. But it is too simplistic to suggest that the impacts of climate change on human settlements will spur mass migration, and it could feed panic about the security implications of human movement”.
UNEP its web site the map that shows the places most at risk for what concerns environmental refugees including the very sensitive low lying islands of the Pacific and Caribbean.
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Carteret Storm
PAC Tulele Peisa The low-lying Carteret Islands form a local NGO called Tulele Peisa, which in the local vernacular means Sailing the Waves on Our Own. It was decided that the Carterets people needed their own indigenous organisation to plan and implement a voluntary relocation program for the next 5-10 years.
Tuvalu is the first country in which residents have been forced to evacuate because of rising sea levels. Nearly 3000 Tuvaluans have already left their homelands. In support of their crisis, the New Zealand government has established an immigration program called the Pacific Access Category, which currently sees seventy-five residents migrate to NZ each year. The PAC also allows 75 citizens of Kiribati, 250 citizens of Tonga, and 250 citizens of Fiji to emigrate to New Zealand each year.
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Sun Come Up is released. A film about displaced Carteret islanders.
Nasheed
November 11 Mohamed Nasheed is the first democratically elected Maldives president. He pledged to set an example by making the Maldives carbon-neutral within a decade by moving to wind and solar power. As part of a campaign, publicizing the threats of climate change and its effects on the Maldives, Nasheed presided over the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting on Oct. 17, 2009. Nasheed presided over the foundation of the Climate Vulnerable Forum.
President
The Island President is released. A film about Mohammed Nasheed and his war against climate change.
Sun come up
Carterets Islands were badly damaged by king tides and violent storm surges. Some ilanders were forced to move to Bougainville.
Mohammed
Gavin Atkins a journalist of the Asian corrispondent asked “What happened to the climate refugees?”. After the story was picked up by news outlets around the world such as Investor News, American Spectator and was cited in the Australian newspaper. It was also a report on Fox News..
Mangrooves Kiribati government planted mangroove trees as a way to try to protect his coastal environments.
Controversy Observations
The debate developed around environmental migration topic, even if relatively new, has evolved quite quickly in the last few years. There are different opinions about the topic: those who focus on which are the reasons of the migration argue that the real motivation is related more to economic problems than environmental one. Others focus on what could be the solution to the problem, trying to define reception plans from refugees. Still others engage debates about which term is more appropriate, migrants or refugees. In the meanwhile, the islanders have to face the matter, fighting against what is becoming an everyday problem. Because of its multiple facets, it has been really interesting analyze the controversy on the Web, paying particularly attention to four small islands (Carteret Islands, Kiribati, Maldives and Tuvalu), that in the last decade experienced the problem to their own cost, and trying to understand if the situation they have to live today will be experienced by someone else tomorrow.
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Who Talks About The Controversy? Which Islands Talks About The Controversy? What Are The Actors Talking About? What Are The Islands Talking About? Are The Islands Talking About Themselves? Are There Some Differences If The Debate Is About Migrants Rather Than Refugees? 17
Protocol
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The first step of this research was to create a single corpus, composed by one hundred websites, to analyze. To have a point of view as much heterogeneous as possible, it was chosen to use the terminological controversy between migrants and refugees querying both words on Google. These two words were combined with four terms that could have been associated with themselves (climate, environmental, forced and eco). Furthermore, these resulting five queries were combined with the names of the four islands chosen. In the end, to obtain a comparison between the way the controversy is discussed in the islands and the way the controversy is discussed from a global point of view, the previous queries were combined with a non-geographical research. The following step was to filter the obtained results. At first, the hosts in common to the ten lists were selected using the Triangulation Tool. To check if the websites selected were actually talking about the topic, they were scraped with Google Scraper Tool. The first ten results of each of the Scrape were joined together to create the final corpus made up by 50 websites on the migrants side and 50 websites on the refugees’ side. The hosts were then divided into five categories: Mainstream News, Independent News, Governmental Organizations, NonGovernmental Organizations and Academic Research. These five categories became the
actors of the controversy, the subjects of this research. Basing on the mutual comparison between the two corpus, it have been used three different tools. At first, to visualize the interconnections between the websites and their respective weight on the Web space, it has been done an outlink Crawler. The result was visualized on Gephi, first, and manually re-composed on Illustrator. Then, always considering the linguistic limitation deriving from the only use of English language in the research, to see if there was a geographical correspondence between small islands local problems and the Web debate, it has been used Issue Geographer Tool.
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All the information about a single page found in the research are visualized as a box, in which the long side represent the classification of the url (by actor or by island) and the short side represent the unit of a single page.
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abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is an information local network acp-eucourier.info The Courier, is an information global network. 26
allafrica.com AllAfrica Global Media is a multimedia content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide. AllAfrica is one of a family of companies that aggregate, produce and distribute news from across Africa to tens of millions of end users. allvoices.com The world’s premier platform for citizen journalism, Allvoices is committed to delivering a community-driven platform for open, global news and idea exchange. banabanvoice.ning.com Indipendent information network. The Banabans are the Forgotten People of the Pacific who have suffered from one of the greatest ecological and environmental disasters over the past century. bluepeacemaldives.org The organization is made up of concerned individuals who wish to ensure that the natural environment is used wisely and continues to be available for the benefit and enjoyment of future generations.
Bluepeace is the oldest environmental Non-Governmental Organization in the Maldives. Its mission is to create environmental awareness through its many campaigns and activities. brookings.edu The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. It conducts highquality, independent research and provide innovative, practical recommendations. climate.aib.org.uk Indipendent blog that talks environment and green thinking.
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current.com Network founded by Al Gore. It makes and shows exhaustive analysis about climate change and its thorny problems. economist.com An English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. ehs.unu.edu Worldwide network of Research and Training Institutes. Research about: vulnerability assessment, resilience analysis, risk management and adaptation strategies within linked human-environment systems; and Internal displacement and transboundary migration due to
body of web-only work produced by its own staff, including a rolling news service.
environmental push-factors. ejfoundation.org Environmental Justice Foundation, charity helping people deal with environmental abuses, finding peaceful ways of preventing them. fm-cab.blogspot.com Forced Migration - Current Awareness. Service that highlights web research and information relating to refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and other forced migrants. foe.org.au Australian grassroots organization.
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goodplanet.info It provides information about ecologic issues. greenleft.org.au Australia’s leading source of local, national and international news, analysis, and discussion and debate to strengthen the anti-capitalist movements. grist.org Idependent green news network. guardian.co.ukg Formerly known as Guardian Unlimited, is a British website owned by the Guardian Media Group. It contains nearly all of the content of the newspapers The Guardian and The Observer, as well as a substantial
huffingtonpost.com The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington,Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style, the green movement, world news, and comedy, and has news, blogs, and original content. ipsnews.net Inter Press Service is a global news agency. Its main focus is the production of independent news and analysis about events and processes affecting economic, social and political development. The agency has established a niche in the international mediascape, not only by providing professional reporting on the Global South, civil society, and globalization, but also by covering topics in a more in-depth way than is common in the mainstream news. irinnews.org Integrated Regional Information Networks acts as a news agency focusing on humanitarian stories in regions that are often forgotten, under-reported, misunderstood or ignored. The main purpose of this project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is to create greater awareness and
understanding of regional issues and events, and to contribute to better informed and more effective humanitarian action, media coverage and advocacy. islandsbusiness.com Multimedia publishing company based in Suva, Fiji. With correspondents throughout Oceania, it describes itself as the “premier publishing group in the Pacific Islands region”, with fourteen outlets in digital and video media as well as printed magazines. The latter include current affairs and business magazines, in-flight magazines for three of the region’s airlines, including Cathay Pacific, and four special-interest industry publications. judithcurry.com Forum that engages discussions about topics related to the climate science and the science-policy interface. khaleejtimes.com The Khaleej Times is a daily English language newspaper published in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Traditionally perceived as the second most popular newspaper in the UAE, Khaleej Times has struggled to keep up its circulation and entered 2011 with a print run of just under 40,000 copies. mediamatters.org No-profit organization center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation
in the U.S. media. migrantsatsea.wordpress.com A blog that focuses on the subjects of maritime immigration enforcement, rescue at sea, and refugee and migrant rights and protections. motherjones.com A nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting. mseumvictoria.com.au The largest public museums organization in Australia. It is responsible for the state’s scientific and cultural collections, providing public access through three museums. news.bbc.co.uk BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. The website is the most popular news website in the United Kingdom and forms a major part of BBC Online (bbc. co.uk). npr.org National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. oikoumene.org Worldwide fellowship of churches. opendemocracy.net openDemocracy publishes high quality news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.
outlookindia.com Outlook is one of India’s four top-selling English weekly newsmagazines.
reuters.com Information network for businesses and professionals.
pacific.scoop.co.nz Network that collects news from the pacific islands.
rsc.ox.ac.uk University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre.
parl.gc.ca Parliament of Canada.
sfu.ca Canadian University website.
pina.com.fj The Pacific Islands News Association is the premier regional organisation representing the interests of media professionals in the Pacific region. It links radio, television, newspapers, magazines, online services, national associations and journalism schools in 23 Pacific Island.
smh.com.au The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.
praer.org Program to Relocate and Assist Environmental Refugees. It recognizes the legal status of those displaced by Climate Change so that they may seek asylum as refugees. reliefweb.int Relief Web is an on-line gateway to information on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of forgotten emergencies at the same time.
spiegel.de Spiegel Online, the online version of German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, is one the most visited news websites written in the German language. sprep.org Regional organization established by the governments and administrations of the Pacific region to look after its environment. suprememastertv.com Satellite channel website. takepart.com A community website focused on socially conscious media and issues. theage.com.au The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper which has been published in Melbourne,
Australia since 1854. The Age primarily serves Victoria but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. thedailystar.net The Daily Star is the largest circulating English daily newspaper in Bangladesh. theecologist.org The Ecologist is a British environmental publication. It addresses a wide range of environmental subjects and promotes an ecological systems thinking approach. time.com Time is the world’s largest weekly news magazine. towardsrecognition.org Toward Recognition is a blog with the primary goal of raising awareness of environmental migrants. treehugger.com TreeHugger is a sustainability website. It was rated the top sustainability blog of 2007 by Nielsen Netratings, and was included in Time Magazine’s 2009 blog index as one of the top twenty-five blogs. uk.oneworld.net Engaged to innovate people’s media for a fairer and greener worlds.
uk.reuters.com see reuters.com un.org United Nation website. unfpa.org United Nations Population Fund website. unhcr.org UN refugees Agency website. unicef.org United Nations Children’s Fund website. unicef-irc.or Unicef Innocenti research centre website. wn.com World news “delivers breaking news from all over the world in 43 Languages”. pulitzercenter.org The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an innovative award-winning non-profit journalism organization dedicated to supporting the independent international journalism.
Urls in common beetween actors guardian.co.uk unhcr.org towardsrecognition.org npr.org takepart.com ipsnews.net allvoices.com news.bbc.co.uk
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In the tables the hosts in the corpus are divided by actors and geographical belonging. The squares near to the hosts’ names represent the single page found. Therefore, in some cases, there can be multiple pages of the same host. From this partition, there are two things that could be immediately noticed: the first one is the total lack of websites in Academic Research category in Refugees corpus. The second one is the presence of eight hosts in common to the two corpus (highlighted in bold).
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Qualitative comparison
The qualitative comparison has been made to make easier to compare common Keywords and Entities between the two lists. There are two type of graph: divided by actor and divided by island. This is useful to make clear the differences between the two lists and to understand deeply the connection between one certain actor or island and the words it uses.
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In quantitative graphs, alchemy’s relevance has been used to find out how much actors and islands talks about these topics.
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This graphic shows the general distribution of the keywords in the corpus. Made with Clash Tool, the position of the keywords is determined by their presence in the Refugees’ corpus instead of Migrants’ one. The areas of the circles changes depending on the number of websites using the keyword while the position is given by an arithmetic mean of the websites in Refugees’ corpus and the websites in Migrants’ corpus containing the word.
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This graph represent how all the keyword and all the entities are distributed. The first column represent the islands (General, Carteret, Kiribati, Maldives, Tuvalu); the second column represent the actors (Mainstream News, Indipendent News, Governmental Organizations, Non Governmental Organizations). In the third column, in the lower side there are the keywords, and in the upper side there are the classification of Entities, all written in the fourth column. The main difference between the refugees’ corpus and the migrants’ one is the number and variety of both Keywords and Entities. The pages who use the word refugees, tend to talk about less argument, naming fewer people, countries and organizations than the pages who use migrants do.
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Extreme events floods and cyclones Movie Sun Come Up Islands Low lying islands, coral, nature. Migrants Forced migration, resettlement, mass migration, climate migrants, enviroment-related migration. Population Peoples, islanders, community. Refugees Climate refugees, environmental refugees. Sea level Sea lever rise.
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What can be noticed is that words like “climate change”, “extreme events” and “administration” (which indicates adaptation plans) are nearer to Migrants than to Refugees. This could suggest that this word is probably used the most in scientific and humanitarian discussions, while “refugees” could be considered as a more generic word. 46
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This graph shows how both the Refugees’ and Migrants’ corpus talk about the same things in Mainstream News and in General (the top rows of both graph). Watching the actor’s graph, the main differences are in the Non Governmental Organizations, in which pages with refugees talks about more arguments and in Academic Research, non present in the refugees’ corpus. More in general, Migrants’ corpus talks more about administration and, obviously, migrants.
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Country Australia Is politically involved into the refugees problem. A strong resettlement program continues to provide durable solutions for refugees from the region and around the world. 52
Burundi During ‘90s Burundi had a bloody civil war beetween etnies. After these conflicts, intense fluxes of refugees moved to near nations. This fact started a long serie of crossed military interventions. The return of displaced persons begun beetween 20022003. Canada Canada’s current humanitarian immigration program comprises various streams, the main one being refugees. Refugees come to Canada one of two ways: either they are selected abroad to receive a permanent resident visa to come to Canada or they come to Canada on their own and claim protection once here. Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is still contending with ongoing conflict in its troubled east. Approximately 2 million people remain internally displaced and there are more than 450,000 Congolese refugees in neighboring countries. Fiji
Refugee advocates say increasing numbers of Fijians are seeking asylum in Australia to escape persecution at the hands of Fijian military government, and they say these people are the most vulnerable to the scam artists. India Though India has not ratified the 1951 United Nations (UN) and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, it provides shelter to over 300,000 refugees from neighboring countries. Italy According to Human Right Watch, since Italy established its new interdiction and summary return policy on May 6. 2008, about 500 migrants and asylum seekers have been interdicted by Italian security forces and their boats towed to Libya. Kenya The drought situation in the eastern Horn of Africa is deteriorating and it is unlikely to improve until next year, the humanitarian organization CARE International warns. More than 1,000 Somali refugees are arriving daily at the refugee settlements of Daadab in northern Kenya. Kiribati The island nation of Kiribati is preparing for the possibility that sea level rise could render large parts of the country uninhabitable: A program that’s training i-Kiribati people as nurses to help them move comfortably to
Australia. Anote Tong, Kiribati’s president, calls the strategy “migrating with dignity.” Maldives The Maldives plans to move money from tourism to purchase land in case of climate disaster. The country’s new president also envisions a sovereign wealth fund for the island nation’s relocation and investments in alternative energy technologies. The vice president said the Maldives would seek international support to reinforce natural coral barriers. Pakistan The number of refugees in Pakistan keeps growing. United Nations officials are putting the number at one and a half million people this month. They are fleeing the region where Pakistan’s army is trying to put down the Taliban. Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea is a signatory to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
Organization EJF EJF is a registered charity established in 2000 to empower people who suffer most from environmental abuses to find peaceful ways of preventing them.
IPCC The IPCC assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of humaninduced climate change. UN The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.
The research institute for the Department of Health, Taiwan. UNU United nation university contributes, through research and education, to efforts to resolve pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare.
Persons Andrea Gallina Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Roskilde University, Denmark.
Jonathan Leake Science and Environment Editor at the Sunday Times. Margaret Okeke A cyclone tore through the Bay of Bengal leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. She and her family are some of those called environmental refgees.
Cecilia Tacoli Researcher at International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
Michael Oppenheimer Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Chair Vaughan Lowe Chichele Professor of Public International Law at Oxford University.
Mohammad Zaman Executive director of Society for Bangladesh Climate Justice.
Francois Gemenne Research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI).
Nicole Marshall Graduate student at University of Alberta. Research interests: environmental migration, forced migration and political philosophy.
GMG The Global Migration Group (GMG) is a group consisting of fourteen UN agencies, the World Bank and the International Organisation for Migration that work in cooperation to address global migration issues. It was created in 2006 by then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in order to better coordinate multilateral migration governance initiatives.
Anna Rushworth Press Secretary at New Zealand Parliament
IOM The International Organization for Migration is an intergovernmental organization. It was initially established in 1951 as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) to help resettle people displaced by World War II. NHRI
Director of the United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS).
Harold Haig Secretary of the International Child Migrants Association. Janos Bogardi
Raquel Rolnik professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao
Paolo and is the author of several books and articles on the urban issue. Tullio Treves Professor at the University of Milano and Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of Sea. Alex de Sherbinin Senior Staff Associate for Research at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). Ali Rilwan Executive director of local environmental NGO Blue Peace, from the Maldives. Jane McAdam Director of Research in the Faculty of Law. Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law project at the Gilbert &Tobin Centre of Public Law and convenor of the Faculty’s Refugee Law and Policy Group. Lewis Gordon Pugh Environmental campaigner and maritime lawyer. Maclellan Worked as a journalist at the Pacific Islands Forum in 1997 in Rarotonga. Michael Nash American film director, screenwriter and producer. Author of the film “Climate refugees”.
Mr Maroni A member of the Northern League, an italian party known for its strong anti-immigrant stance.
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These graphics work in the same way of the previous polar axis comparison made with the keywords. The objects analyzed are the entities, divided into three categories: Countries, Organizations and Persons. The first comparison shows the names of all the Countries involved in the controversy. It’s interesting to highlight the presence of three of the Islands queried, Maldives, Kiribati and Tuvalu, while Carteret is totally missing. This could be a consequence of the media phenomenon related to Kiribati and the Maldives. In the second one, the distinction between Organizations involved is quite amazing: only two Organizations are totally aligned with the Refugees’ side. One of them is environmentalist, the other one is a Christian charity. The other Organizations, on the Migrants’ side, are all big ones. What can be deduced is that, maybe, “migrants” is a word used preferably in institutional texts. The third one shows two distinct factions. Except for Janos Bogardi, the director of United Nations University, whose name is quite in the middle of the graphic, the other names are definitely divided. On the refugees side there are activists, a journalist and the director of the movie “Climate refugees”. On the other side there are all the people belonging to scientific or institutional Organizations. This could be another proof of the fact that the word “migrants” is preferred to the word “refugees” because of its being more technical, more ‘politically correct’.
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The following graphics are the same of the previous one. The only difference is that this one shows what the actual number of words in the corpus really is, instead of counting the number of websites. That’s why the circles are generally bigger than the other ones.
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Common Country Papua New Guinea Low-lying carteret islands are within Papua Nuova Guinea's jurisdiction.
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Kiribati Very affected by the environmental degradation linked to the climate change, they are the first ones who try to protect coastal environment by planting mangroves. Australia Australian government has been helping the local governments of the Pacific Islands since the problem of migration has become worrying. Maldives The question of Maldivians' adaptation to climate change is brought on the screen thanks to the movie "The island President".
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more than 120 countries.
EJF Environmental Justice Foundation, is a registered charity established in 2000 to empower people who suffer most from environmental abuses to find peaceful ways of preventing them. EJF has argued that the people who will be forced to move due to climate change currently have no adequate recognition in international law. The EJF contends that a new multilateral legal instrument is required to specifically address the needs of climate refugees in order to confer protection to those fleeing environmental degradation and climate change.
UN The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.
IPCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences, and possible options for adapting to these consequences or mitigating the effects. Thousands of scientists and other experts contribute (on a voluntary basis, without payment from the IPCC) to writing and reviewing reports, which are reviewed by representatives from all the governments, with summaries for policy makers being subject to line-by-line approval by all participating governments. Typically this involves the governments of
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General view Organizations, indipendent news and Academic research talk more that the others, in general the topic distribution a far varied and it focus on many organizations.
Only refugees talk about WWC and COIN, instead in AU, GMG, IOM, NHRIs, SBCJ, UNJCR and UNU there’s only migrants who talk about them. In EJF and UN, migrants talks more that refugees.
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Jane Mcadam Professor Jane McAdam is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and the Director of Research in the Faculty of Law. She is also the Director of the International Refugee and Migration Law project at the Gilbert&Tobin Centre of Public Law and the convenor of the Faculty’s Refugee Law and Policy Group. She is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre, and was the Director of its International Summer School in Forced Migration in 2008. (Vedi timeline pag XX) Janos Bogardi Janos Bogardi has been the Director of the United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNUEHS) since 2003. Simultaneously he is also Vice-Rector a.i. of the Vice Rectorate in Europe since May 2007. Janos Bogardi started his UN career in 1995 with the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, France, as a Senior Programme Specialist and soon became the Chief of the Section on Sustainable Water
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Actor
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There is only migrants in: Gallina, Rushworth, Tacoli, Lowe, Gemenne, Haig, Leake, Okeke, Oppenheimer, Zaman, Marshall, Rolnik, Treves. instead there is only refugees in far less people: Rilwan, Sherbinin, McAdam, Pugh, Maclellan, Nash, Maroni. Despite that, Refugees is louder in Bogardi.
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Corpus crosses The only cross between the two corpus of migrants and refugees is Janos Bogardi.
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Nicole Marshall Raquel Rolnik Tullio Treves
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Michael Nash
Margaret Okeke
Maclellan
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Jonathan Leake
Janos Bogardi
Jane McAdam
Harold Haig
Francois Gemenne
Chair Vaughan Lowe
Cecilia Tacoli
Anna Rushworth
Andrea Gallina
Ali Rilwan
Alex de Sherbinin
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Cecilia Tacoli
Anna Rushworth
Andrea Gallina
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the percentage of arguCorpus This graphs showsIsland ments discusses in the common sites beRefugees General corpus. tween the refugees’ and G migrants’ The dimension of the pie charts is given by the number of pages of the site found in Migrants C Carteret both the corpus. It has to be noticed that the common sites are only from three types K Kiribati of actor: Mainstream News, Indipendent News e Governative Organization. Every site, except takepart.com talk about climate M Maldives change. T Tuvalu
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These graphics showCorpus the division by islands’ websites of the Countries found in the AlRefugees chemy’s research. The main difference between Refugees and Migrants could be noticed Migrants from the different size of the slices in the pie charts dedicated to the islands: in the first one the percentage is 81.5%, while in the second one it’s only 11.8%. Migrants’ websites seem to be more sensitive than Refugees’ to all the Countries having migration problems. Another interesting thing is the difference between the percentages of the islands: in the first one, Kiribati reaches the biggest value. This difference could be explained by the media phenomenon built around Kiribati’s situation. In Migrants it’s quite the opposite: there is not such a difference in the localization of the islands, since the biggest part of the results come from websites belonging to general’s set.
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Which Organizations talk about the controversy?
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the distribution of the Corpus This pie chart shows Island Organizations divided by actor. The most Refugees G General relevant thing is the massive presence of Governmental Organizations in Migrants’ corpus, almost the doubleCofCarteret Refugees’. This Migrants and the fact that almost half of the words are from Academic Research set, further K Kiribati demonstrates that the word “migrants” is considered as more technical of the word “refugees” and it’s used above all in scientifM Maldives ic field. The presence of the WCC (World Council of Churches) in Refugees’ corpus T Tuvalu shows how this side of the topic, instead, tends to integrate variegated points of view.
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Who talks about the controversy?
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the division by actors Corpus This pie chart shows Island of the people found in Alchemy research. Refugees G GeneralpercentWhat can be seen is the different age of researcher in Migrants’ corpus and in Refugees’ one: in the first Ccase, the percentMigrants Carteret age reaches the 66.7% of the total amount, outnumbering the amount of researchers in K Kiribati Refugees. Another interesting difference is the presence of a new category in Refugees’ corpus, “film maker”, while Migrants apM in Maldives pears the name of Margaret Okeke, a migrant. T Tuvalu
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Conclusion
From the research came out the informations expected. Medias use more the term “refugees” and maybe because of its impact on the feelings of the reader and its capacity to attract the attention to the fact that those people are forced to leave their homes. But under this use there is a lack of a broader view of the problem, favouring sensationalism to the detriment of the complexity of the topic. Migrants’ websites put the debate under both governmental and scientific points of view, focusing mostly on adaptation plans. To better develop the topic in order to continue this research in the future, it could be useful to integrate the English queries with the same ones translated into other languages. Furthermore, the top results could be analyzed with a deeper semantic research (taking, for instance, all the results with a relevance lower than 0.70) and .pdf files found with Google’s research could be included in the analysis.
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