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In from the Cold? Should Climate Migrants Get Special Legal Migration Pathways?
In from the Cold? Should Climate Migrants Get Special Legal Migration Pathways?
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Feb 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
People displaced by climate change are not eligible for refugee status. But should countries extend any sort of legal protections to them? Our guest, Ama Francis, a climate displacement project strategist with the International Refugee Assistance Project and Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, thinks so. In this episode, we discuss some small ongoing initiatives and what new legal pathways might look like.
Released:
Feb 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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