| dc.description.abstract | A NEW LOOK AT THE CONCEPT OF MIGRATION: CLIMATE MIGRANTS
Imagine for a moment that you run out of water, you have no access to any food, or you have no home
to stay. What would you do?
We generally think that migrations are caused by wars, poverty, cultural and social reasons. However,
climate change has changed the structure of the phenomenon of migration, which has been known
from past to present, by causing people to have to leave their homes and living spaces. This concept,
called "climate immigrants", is used for people who migrate due to natural disasters and temperature
changes. El-Hinnawi, author of The State of Environment, defines climate migrants as “people who are
forced to leave their traditional habitats, temporarily or permanently, due to a significant environmental
degradation (triggered by natural processes and/or humans) that endangers their existence or seriously
affects their quality of life,” he defines it as. Unfortunately, there are millions of people experiencing
this situation. According to the International Environmental Partnership (IEP), it is estimated that 1.2
billion people globally will be forced to migrate by 2050 due to climate change and natural disasters.
Let's talk about developments in recent years... A 2017 study in the journal Science Advances found
that by 2100, temperatures could rise to the point where going outside for even a few hours "could
result in death for even the strongest people" in some places, including parts of India and eastern
China. took it out. In the hurricanes that hit Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador in November 2020,
people lost their homes and livelihoods due to torrential rains and landslides. People in this region
flocked across the border into Mexico and then headed for the United States. Millions of people in the
African Sahel region have flocked to coasts and cities due to drought and widespread crop failures. If
escape from warmer climates reaches the scale suggested by current research, this would mean a
massive remapping of the world's population. | en_US |
