ENV 776a () / 2025-2026

Narratives of “Framing” Climate Migration: Scientific Evidence, Unheard Voices, and Responsibilities

This intensive fall seminar is designed for students from diverse disciplines with experience in summer fieldwork data collection to analyze and produce various outputs that facilitate a deeper understanding of climate migration. The course explores the complex relationship between climate change and migration, focusing on hands-on quantitative and qualitative data manipulation and analysis of the attribution of environmental/climate change drivers, the experiences of migrants, the responses of host communities, and the rise of a conservative, negative narrative on climate migration. Legal frameworks and human rights perspectives are central to understanding the challenges and opportunities for climate migrants. At the end of the course, we expect students to gain a deeper understanding of the diverse challenges and opportunities within attribution science, as well as the human rights, policy, political, and financial frameworks at the intersection of climate change and migration, through data preprocessing, the use of different tools, analysis, documenting and writing. The course enables students to develop the skills and perspectives needed to pursue inclusive, interactive, solution-oriented approaches to climate migration challenges.