A comparative analysis of legal practices to climate-induced migration in Italy and Sweden

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2022-10

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This thesis analyses two European Union Member States’ approaches to climate induced migration. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the gap in international law to address this category of migrants by bringing together case studies, global policy responses, and normative issues from the angle of human rights and international law. This thesis questions the different practices between EU states toward environmentally forced migrants by employing a human rights lens for climate-induced migration that is not protected under current treaties and conventions. The first section explains the climate and migration nexus. Later, the climate-induced migration’s historical and conceptual framework is explored. Then, the normative power of the EU and its human rights regime is examined. Finally, comparing Sweden’s and Italy’s approaches toward climate-induced migrants are discussed within the framework of the EU’s human rights regime. As this thesis supports, the state-based understanding and the particularist practice lays the groundwork for human rights violations against many people who are or will be displaced as a result of climate change.

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Climate-induced migration, Human rights, European Union, Italy, Sweden

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99753

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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S. Karaman, “A comparative analysis of legal practices to climate-induced migration in Italy and Sweden,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.