When Home Disappears: Reimagining Identity and Sovereignty in a Climate-Displaced World
By: John Raymund Torres and Geraldine Torres
References
- Perry N. Climate refugee fighting to stay in New Zealand [Internet]. The Associated Press; 2013. Available from: https://globalnews.ca/news/874282/climate-refugee-fighting-to-stay-in-new-zealand/
- McAdam J. Climate change displacement and international law [Internet]. Legal and Protection Policy Research Series. Geneva: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 2010. Available from: https://www.refworld.org/policy/strategy/unhcr/2010/en/77723
- International Organization for Migration. Discussion note: migration and the environment [MC/INF/288] [Internet]. Geneva: IOM; 2007. Available from: https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl1411/files/MC_INF_288.pdf
- Boano C, Zetter R, Morris T. Environmentally displaced people: understanding the linkages between environmental change, livelihoods and forced migration [Policy Briefing No. 1] [Internet]. Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; 2008. Available from: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/files/files-1/pb1-environmentally-displaced-people-2008.pdf
- Kälin W, Schrepfer N. Protecting people crossing borders in the context of climate change: normative gaps and possible approaches [Internet]. UNHCR Legal and Protection Policy Research Series. Geneva: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 2012. Available from: https://www.unhcr.org/media/no-24-protecting-people-crossing-borders-context-climate-change-normative-gaps-and-possible
- Stocker TF, Qin D, Plattner GK, Alexander LV, Allen SK, Bindoff NL, et al. Technical summary [Internet]. In: Stocker TF, Qin D, et al., editors. Climate change 2013: the physical science basis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2013. p. 33-115. Available from: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_TS_FINAL.pdf
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability [Internet]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2014. Available from: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/
- Renaud F, Bogardi JJ, Dun O, Warner K. Control, adapt or flee: how to face environmental migration [InterSecTions No. 5/2007] [Internet]. Bonn: United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security; 2007. Available from: https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/unu:1859/pdf3973.pdf
- International Organization for Migration. World migration report 2022 [Internet]. Geneva: IOM; 2022. Available from: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=World+Migration+Report+2022&field_publication_type=All&created%5Bdate%5D=09%2F01%2F2001&created_1%5Bdate%5D=
- Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. Climate change in the Philippines [Internet]. Quezon City: PAGASA; 2015. Available from: https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/information/climate-change-in-the-philippines
- National Research Council. Climate stabilization targets: emissions, concentrations, and impacts over decades to millennia. Washington (DC): The National Academies Press; 2011. Available from: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/12877/chapter/1#ii
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Global report on internal displacement 2023 [Internet]. Geneva: IDMC; 2023. Available from: https://www.internal-displacement.org/global-report/grid2023/
- Brunsma DL, Overfelt D, Picou JS, editors. The sociology of Katrina: perspectives on a modern catastrophe. Lanham (MD): Rowman & Littlefield; 2007.
- Betts A. Survival migration: a new protection framework. Glob Gov. 2010;16(3):361-82. https://doi.org/10.1163/19426720-01603006
- McAdam J. Climate change displacement and international law [Internet]. Geneva: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 2011. Available from: https://www.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/legacy-pdf/4dff16e99.pdf
- Ďurková P, Gromilova A, Kiss B, Plaku M. Climate refugees in the 21st century [Internet]. Vienna: Regional Academy on the United Nations; 2012. Available from: https://www.academia.edu/7248220/Climate_Refugees
- Tol RSJ. The Stern review of the economics of climate change: a comment. Energy Environ. 2006;17(6):977-81. https://doi.org/10.1260/095830506779398911
- Caney S. Climate change, human rights, and moral thresholds. In: Gardiner SM, Caney S, Jamieson D, Shue H, editors. Climate ethics: essential readings [Internet]. New York: Oxford University Press; 2010. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195399622.003.0018
- Gardiner SM. A perfect moral storm: the ethical tragedy of climate change. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2011.
- Rigaud KK, de Sherbinin A, Jones B, Bergmann J, Clement V, Ober K, et al. Groundswell: preparing for internal climate migration. Washington (DC): World Bank; 2018. Available from https://hdl.handle.net/10986/29461
- World Council of Churches. Justice, peace and creation: climate justice [Internet]. n.d. Available from: https://www.oikoumene.org/what-we-do/care-for-creation-and-climate-justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15566/aqdc5y66 | Journal eISSN: 2167-2415
Language: English
Page range: 195 - 199
Submitted on: Jun 5, 2025
Accepted on: Sep 16, 2025
Published on: Apr 17, 2026
Published by: Global Health Institute at William Carey International University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2026 John Raymund Torres, Geraldine Torres, published by Global Health Institute at William Carey International University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.