{"id":15874,"date":"2017-03-01T14:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15874"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:46","slug":"event-tonight-climate-cafe-climate-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/event-tonight-climate-cafe-climate-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Tonight &#8211; Climate Caf\u00e9: Climate Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Event Tonight &#8211; Climate Caf\u00e9: Climate Refugees\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">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.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Nadia Abu-Zahra<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0(International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Jay Drydyk<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0(Philosophy, 杏吧原创 University)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Sergio Guerra\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">(Spoken Word Artist and Community Organizer)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Franny Nudelman<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0(English, 杏吧原创 University)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/daniel-mcneil\/\">Daniel McNeil<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">(History &amp; Migration and Diaspora Studies, 杏吧原创 University)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Jay Ramasubramanyam<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0(Law and Legal Studies, 杏吧原创 University)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Chris Russill<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0(Journalism and Communication, 杏吧原创 University)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Moderated by: <\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Justin Paulson\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">(Sociology and Anthropology, 杏吧原创 University)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">All are welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Wednesday March 1st, 2017, 7-9pm<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Heart &amp; Crown Preston Street, 353B Preston St. Ottawa<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Organized by the 杏吧原创&nbsp;Climate Commons. For more information please contact:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:ErinBaird@cmail.carleton.ca\">ErinBaird@cmail.carleton.ca<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Some questions that may be discussed this evening:<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Why do we need climate activists and refugee advocates talking to each other?<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">In what ways are climate refugees similar to or different from other refugees?<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">How does climate change intersect with other, more immediate causes of forced migration?\u00a0 (droughts, famines, and fires, but also interstate or civil wars, religious and ethnic violence, etc.?) \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">The UNHCR notes that \u201cMany of those who are displaced across borders as a result of climate change may not meet the refugee definition.\u201d\u00a0 So what changes do we need to see in international law to make sense of climate-induced displacement?<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Do Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen have anything in common with regard to climate change?\u00a0 Is the refugee ban also a question of climate (in)justice?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">A common theme of discourses around the &#8216;refugee problem&#8217; is that migration is a band-aid but not a solution: we need to fix the root causes requiring people to move.\u00a0 (Hence the establishment of refugee camps rather than permanent resettlement.)\u00a0 How does the figure of the climate refugee change how we must think about this?\u00a0 Do we need a permanent right of settlement? \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">And when extended rights across borders, what of questions of indigenous sovereignty?<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">How does climate displacement affect the availability of cheap\/exploitable migrant labour?\u00a0 And how should organized labour respond?<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">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).\u00a0 Who benefits from these, and who is being left out? \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Who gets to move in the first place?\u00a0 Who won\u2019t have to?<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. All are welcome! Organized by the 杏吧原创&nbsp;Climate Commons. For more information please contact:&nbsp;ErinBaird@cmail.carleton.ca Some questions that may be discussed this evening:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15875,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15874\/revisions\/15875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}