Illustration: Cecilia Humphrey; Photograph: Vlad Sokhin

Illustration: Cecilia Humphrey; Photograph: Vlad Sokhin

Understanding displacement in the context of disasters and climate change

UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law

People are already moving away from the impacts of climate change and disasters.
How can law and policy help? 

See what the Kaldor Centre Climate Mobility Hub is all about in the brief introductory video above.

See what the Kaldor Centre Climate Mobility Hub is all about in the brief introductory video above.

About the contributors 

The Climate Mobility Hub was generously supported by the Knights Family Jabula Foundation.

The Kaldor Centre Climate Mobility Hub was inspired by and based on the pioneering research in this field of UNSW Scientia Professor of Law Jane McAdam AO, Director of UNSW's Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, and supervised by Kaldor Centre Executive Manager Frances Voon.

Writing and production: Lauren Martin

Creative direction and production: Cecilia Humphrey of Subttld by CLVH.

Photography: As credited, with special thanks to Vlad Sokhin and his book Warm Waters.

Illustrations by Cecilia Humphrey, based on photographs by Vlad Sokhin and the following:

Steven Saphore/AFP via Getty Images; Mario Tama/Getty Images; Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images; and The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images.

We are indebted to many who shared their time and expertise, including Dr Betty Barkha; Ly Huong; Dr Tamara Wood; Mark Gnadt and Dawn Marie Vout of Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC); Chad Gibson of Not Our Field; Sara Hakim; Miia Barrow, Marcus Campbell, Stephanie Uhlmann and Shreshtha Kumar of UnitingWorld; Charlotte Evans and Corinne Fagueret of the Pacific Calling Partnership at the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice & Community Education; Rae Bainteiti of the Rabi Island Community Hub (RICH); Cynthia Houniuhi of the Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change; Alexandra Gilley, Peter Harrison and other UNSW colleagues at the Kaldor Centre and beyond.