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As the climate crisis throughout the world continues to worsen, individuals are being forced to flee their home countries because of the extreme effects of climate related natural disasters at an alarming rate. Research and scholarship in climate change have paid only cursory attention to the relationship between widespread displacements and climate related disasters. However, as this phenomenon progresses, it is becoming increasingly important for researchers and scholars to acknowledge the ways that climate change is affecting mass migration, as well as analyze what countries/regions are most at risk of facing this crisis. According to the World Bank, there will be 143 million more climate migrants by 2050 from just three regions: Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia (World Bank Group, 2021). Drawing on the research published by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Epule et al., and Islam and Khan, I assess the various factors that are driving mass displacement in these three regions. I then include my own data collected from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, showing the number of disaster related displacements in each region over the course of one decade. This data contributes to a better understanding of the patterns associated with the number of displaced people in a specific region and the natural disaster(s) that caused those displacements.
ContributorsConti, Isabella (Author) / Broberg, Gregory (Thesis director) / Martin, Nathan (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Sch (Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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The European Migration crisis saw the deadliest mass exodus of people in the 21st century. The crisis impacted and is still impacting Morocco politically, socially, and its economic landscape. American media focused heavily on the Syrian refugee migration from the Middle East through the Balkans to European countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and France but failed to show the complex migration issues in North Africa, specifically Morocco. In continuum with the refugee crisis in Syria, push factors like economic disparity, human rights violations and civil unrest has forced thousands of Sub Saharan Africans to search for a new life somewhere else. This multimedia project serves to highlight the experiences of transit migrants in Morocco as they wait to make the journey across the Mediterranean Sea. This creative project utilized photojournalism to tell four distinct stories: Immigration Policies between Morocco and Spain, Migrants and the church, a profile on a migrant, and a photo collection of unaccompanied migrant youth. The purpose of this creative project was to show a different perspective of migrants and their experiences.
ContributorsMontoya, Lerman (Author) / Rodriguez, Rick (Thesis director) / Fernandez, Valeria (Committee member) / Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Comm (Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05