Tethering to Human Rights in the Pushes and Pulls of Human Mobility

Mar 3, 2022 | Jill Baggerman
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We live in an era of mobility of ideas, money, and people, said Oli Brown, Associate Fellow at Chatham House. 

According to the World Bank’s Groundswell report, by 2050, 250 million people will likely be pushed to migrate within their country’s borders.  Efforts like the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration seek to reframe core challenges around migration processes so that human rights is at the center. 

Multiple and complex factors contribute to changing where we will live and grow our food. Climate change, environmental changes, and how we manage the planet’s resources will have major impacts.

Despite the magnitude and complexity of the challenges, the panelists underscored that migration is a natural and important form of adaptation. Understanding migration as a natural trend is not just about human mobility, said Matthew, because “the entire planet is moving in novel ways.” 

In order to conduct integrated climate security analysis, projects and programs must be co-designed with communities and locally owned, said Kellogg. The project team and the community members it engages with should include a diversity of expertise and perspectives