Environmental migration facts for kids
Red: Hurricanes or tropical storms- yellow: desertification or droughts - blue: rising sea levels (islands and river estuaries)
Environmental migration is a form of migration which happens because the environment changes where people live. These changes can be sudden (such as floods, droughts, earthquakes or volcanic eruptions), or they can happen over longer periods of time. An example of changes that occur only slowly are those of desertification or the rise of the sea level.
People migrate due to the changes in their environment, and the find a new home. Did you know that Chinese people just migrated when there was the Coronavirus in China.
Despite problems in formulating a uniform and clear-cut definition of environmental migration, such a concept has increased as an issue of concern in the 2000s as policy-makers, environmental and social scientists attempt to conceptualize the potential societal effects of climate change and general environmental degradation. "Unless it is assumed" in order to consider a person a climate refugee, nature or the environment could be considered the persecutor.
Images for kids
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Shelters in Kenya for those displaced by the 2011 Horn of Africa drought
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See also
In Spanish: Refugiado ambiental para niños
