Description du projet
Comprendre les migrations induites par le climat dans une perspective de genre
Le projet GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG, financé par l’UE, étudie les migrations induites par le climat d’un point de vue de genre s’appuyant sur une méthodologie interdisciplinaire, comparative et participative. Il tente de mettre en lumière un phénomène qui reste occulté dans les catégories administratives et statistiques disponibles à ce jour. Les causes liées au climat étant souvent difficiles à isoler, la recherche doit explorer le poids relatif des événements climatiques dans les trajectoires migratoires. Grâce à des études de cas menées dans trois pays à revenu intermédiaire et centres régionaux de migration — la Malaisie, le Mexique et le Maroc — ce projet explore les processus décisionnels et les expériences des migrants dans le contexte du changement climatique. Le projet comprend également une enquête sensible au genre sur l’état actuel de la gouvernance des migrations liées au climat aux niveaux national et international.
Objectif
The World Bank estimates that climate change will force 216 million people to leave their homes by 2050. Using UN data, the Australian think tank IEP calculates that 1.2 billion people risk being displaced by 2050 because of ecological threats. Beyond alarmist projections of which we need to be wary, and as a matter of fact, we know little about the articulation of internal and international climate-induced migration because once those on the move cross borders they become labour migrants, asylum seekers or undocumented migrants, with climate-related causes rendered invisible. In the absence of any internationally recognized status for climate migrants, it remains unclear what proportion of international migration flows are also caused, at least partially, by changes in people’s natural environments that relate to climate change. Importantly, we know even less about the gendered inequalities that permeate these forms of mobility. To fill this crucial gap, GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG explores climate-induced internal and international migration, and their articulation, from a gendered perspective and through an interdisciplinary, comparative and participatory methodology. This project will produce highly informative ethnographic case-studies in 3 middle-income countries and regional migration hubs (Mexico, Morocco and Malaysia) along with a multi-sited and gender-sensitive enquiry into the current state of climate migration governance at international (e.g. Platform on Disaster Displacement) and national levels, exploring original national policy initiatives (e.g. in Norway, Peru and Kenya). The qualitative and participatory methodology of this research promises to lend unique insights into the decision-making processes, trajectories and lives of climate migrants through a gendered lens. GENDEREDCLIMATEMIG will advance our understanding of the under-researched climate-migration-gender nexus while carving out more space for migrants’ voices.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
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Régime de financement
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitution d’accueil
75794 Paris
France