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Interpretacyjne i prawne problemy definicji i statusu migrantów środowiskowych
Interpretative and legal problems of definition and status of environmental migrants

Author(s): Piotr Krajewski
Subject(s): International Law, Environmental and Energy policy, Migration Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: international law; environmental migrations; environmental changes refugee status;

Summary/Abstract: Climate and environmental changes create, above all, several existential nuisances. There are, among others the cause of the mass movement of people in search of safe shelter and livelihoods. However, they pose considerable problems of a legal nature, and with the political, social and organizational. The article aims to present the basic difficulties in the legal definition of environmental refugees (migrants), and thus in determining their status and the scope of possible protection. It is therefore about identifying and discussing the reasons for the “resistance” of states and the international community to active (legislative) response to the growing wave of environmental migration.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 233-247
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish