Does climate change cause migration? | Daniela Paredes Grijalva | TEDxDonauinsel

Migration is a complex issue and by no means caused by a single factor. The combination of factors such as existing migration pathways, loss of livelihoods, education, social capital among others, enable or not the mobility and immobility of people. Climate change may be among the reasons why people migrate. But it is not the only one. Other environmental changes including those caused by our economic system of (re)production influence the decisions and capabilities to migrate. Beyond numbers and legal categories this talk invites us to think about how we can enable that affected people make their own choices to migrate or to stay and do so with dignity and respecting human rights.
Images: imayna:caceres and E. Laudjeng Daniela loves to connect research, education and practice. Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a DOC-ÖAW Fellow, associate member of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies at the University of Vienna and member of the Global (De)Centre as well as of WIDE-Austria Her work with and experience as a migrant woman in Austria shape her efforts to weave collaborations across groups and sectors to decolonize in both activist and scholarly spaces. With an intersectional lens, her work explores the gender, environmental and social justice struggles as well as colonial legacies and human rights. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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