The Phenomenon of Compelled Migration

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Environmental migrants. A way to recognition.
At present the problems connected with ecological and natural disasters and accidents become more and more relevant and actual. A natural disaster can negatively influence all the spheres of human life. The phenomenon of compelled migration is one of the main effects of such a bad impact.
The problems connected with deterioration of environment are complicated and differ greatly from the problems we used to solve. When we speak about the solution of a problem, we mean a certain act. But, vice versa, to solve a number of environmental problems it is necessary to refuse of some actions. To some extent it means that we should choose a policy of inactivity. But that’s only one side of the coin.
In this article we will consider the migratory processes which concern environmental collapses, ecological catastrophes and natural disasters. The problem has received much attention of scholars, but we will try to explain what has been changed since the end of the twentieth century. This period of time was chosen because it was the time when people recognized the imminence of the situation : a number of publications on that subject appeared; some international conferences and meetings were held.
As far back as 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has already indicated that one of the greatest effects of climate change may be on human migration.
Besides, in the report on world accidents which the International Red Cross prepared in 1999, it is noted that droughts, floods and soil erosion compelled 25 million people to leave their houses.
Natural disasters are as destructive for people and welfare of society as wars or civil conflicts. When a natural disaster reaches enormous sca...

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... to be legitimate and based on the international agreement. As we can see, at a state-by-state basis this problem had been already raised more than once, but it didn't lead to any concrete results.
About 15 years passed since the International Red Cross prepared the report on world accidents and nothing has been changed. While international organizations argue about the exact definition , people remain without legal protection.
In order to protect environmental migrants the international community goes on the way of introducing new concepts of international law that will inevitably entail the increase of a number of documents and entering of additions into them.
It’s become clear that nowadays this problem is paid much more attention in comparison with the beginning of the twentieth century. And we hope that it will lead to the straight actions as soon as possible.

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