Migration, Sustainability and Democracy: Current Debates on Environmental, Social, and Political Issues

This working paper explores connections between migration on the one hand and sustainability and democracy on the other. It presents an introduction to ongoing debates. The paper addresses three issues. Firstly, climate change as a cause of migration. It argues that the relation is not straightforward and the complexities of both, climate change and migration need to be acknowledged. Secondly, it addresses migration policies and sustainable policies of inclusion in countries to which people migrate. And thirdly, it considers the question of political rights in democracies of arrival.