- Introduction – JPacS Speacial Issue
- Uncertain Belongings: Relationships, Money and Returned Migrant Workers in Port Vila, Vanuatu
- ‘On the ship, you can do anything’: the impact of international cruiseship employment for i-Kiribati women
- Climate change and migration: the case of the Pacific Islands and Australia
- Australian Refugee Policy and its Impacts on Pacific Island Countries
- Internal Migration in the Pacific Islands: a regional overview
- Pacific migration futures: ancient solutions to contemporary and prospective challenges?
- Review of the New Pacific Diplomacy
- Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns. Home thoughts Abroad
- Introduction – JPacS Speacial Issue
- Uncertain Belongings: Relationships, Money and Returned Migrant Workers in Port Vila, Vanuatu
- ‘On the ship, you can do anything’: the impact of international cruiseship employment for i-Kiribati women
- Climate change and migration: the case of the Pacific Islands and Australia
- Australian Refugee Policy and its Impacts on Pacific Island Countries
- Internal Migration in the Pacific Islands: a regional overview
- Pacific migration futures: ancient solutions to contemporary and prospective challenges?
- Review of the New Pacific Diplomacy
- Oceanian Journeys and Sojourns. Home thoughts Abroad
Climate change and migration: the case of the Pacific Islands and Australia
Authors: Jillian Ash and Jillian Campbell
Abstract
There is growing consensus that voluntary labour migration can promote economic development in migrant sending and receiving countries and can be a positive adaptive response to the effects of climate change. However, for voluntary migration to be a positive form of adaptation, policy commitment and collaboration between migrant sending and receiving countries will be required. In the Pacific, Australia has capacity to collaborate with Pacific Island governments to facilitate voluntary migration; however, Australia has been reluctant to expand migration access to the Pacific. This article makes the case for promoting migration opportunities between Australia and the Pacific as part of the adaptive strategy efforts.
Keywords: migration, climate change adaptation, Pacific Island countries, Australia, policy.