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Join us for an evening of conversation, learning and debate as we explore the relationship between climate change, refugees, and migration in our community and elsewhere.

• Nadia Abu-Zahra��(International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa)
• Jay Drydyk��(Philosophy, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University)
• Sergio Guerra��(Spoken Word Artist and Community Organizer)
• Franny Nudelman��(English, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University)
• ��(History & Migration and Diaspora Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University)
• Jay Ramasubramanyam��(Law and Legal Studies, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University)
• Chris Russill��(Journalism and Communication, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University)
• Moderated by: Justin Paulson��(Sociology and Anthropology, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University)

All are welcome!

• Wednesday March 1st, 2017, 7-9pm
• Heart & Crown Preston Street, 353B Preston St. Ottawa

Organized by the �Ӱ�ԭ�� Climate Commons. For more information please contact: ErinBaird@cmail.carleton.ca

Some questions that may be discussed this evening:

• Why do we need climate activists and refugee advocates talking to each other?
• In what ways are climate refugees similar to or different from other refugees?
• ��How does climate change intersect with other, more immediate causes of forced migration?�� (droughts, famines, and fires, but also interstate or civil wars, religious and ethnic violence, etc.?) ��
• The UNHCR notes that “Many of those who are displaced across borders as a result of climate change may not meet the refugee definition.”�� So what changes do we need to see in international law to make sense of climate-induced displacement?
• ��Do Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen have anything in common with regard to climate change?�� Is the refugee ban also a question of climate (in)justice?��
• ��A common theme of discourses around the ‘refugee problem’ is that migration is a band-aid but not a solution: we need to fix the root causes requiring people to move.�� (Hence the establishment of refugee camps rather than permanent resettlement.)�� How does the figure of the climate refugee change how we must think about this?�� Do we need a permanent right of settlement? ��
• ��And when extended rights across borders, what of questions of indigenous sovereignty?
• ��How does climate displacement affect the availability of cheap/exploitable migrant labour?�� And how should organized labour respond?
• ��Many resources are being devoted to finding ways to adapt to climate change, whether through GMO crops or seawalls around certain low-lying parts of the world (like Manhattan).�� Who benefits from these, and who is being left out? ��
• ��Who gets to move in the first place?�� Who won’t have to?��