Migration
Climate drivers for migration
Humanity is facing grave environmental challenges all over the globe and migration is one of the adaptive solutions to environmental challenges.
Foreword
This Migration Profile for Seychelles is the second of its kind, providing updated details on migration issues that have evolved since 2014.
Preface
Across all areas of social statistics as well as some areas of economic statistics there is a widespread and rapid trend towards the use of administrative sources, either to complement traditional census and survey sources, or to replace them. There are many advantages to this overall trend, including reduced respondent burden, faster production of statistics, and the concomitant reduced costs. There are also well-known drawbacks, such as a dependence on the content of administrative sources and the challenges in gathering data on subjective characteristics or other variables that are not recorded in administrative sources.
Executive summary
Climate change is increasingly recognized as a complex global challenge with far-reaching implications for human societies. Its effects extend beyond environmental impacts, affecting various aspects of human society, including economic systems, social structures and human rights. There is evidence suggesting a direct link between climate events and incidents of human trafficking, yet the precise mechanisms driving this relationship are not fully understood.
Research scope
The overall scope of this research is to contribute to the understanding of the interlinks between climate change and vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation, throughout different locations and climatic regions. It also proposes policy recommendations to address and mitigate such interlinks. It does so by addressing the following research questions: How and to what extent do the impacts of climate change on livelihood influence risks of trafficking and exploitation? How does this differ between different locations and climate change contexts?
Acknowledgements
We, the authors, would like to express our sincere gratitude to IOM for commissioning this research as part of the Climate Resilience Against Trafficking and Exploitation (CREATE) project.
Political, economic and structural factors affecting the link
This section discusses the structural, economic and political factors that affect the climate change–trafficking chain.
Acknowledgements
This report is part of the project Building Evidence and Developing Capacity to Inform Policy and Programmatic Responses for the Protection of Families Staying Behind in the Gambia, implemented by IOM in the Gambia and funded by the IOM Development Fund.
Conclusion and policy recommendations
The study investigates the role of climate change as a migration driver, viewing climate as the envelope within which all activities occur.