Forced Migration Review: Conflict, climate change and the shrinking mobility space in the Central Sahel

30.03.22 - In Central Sahel, seasonal migration has been a key strategy to cope with a harsh natural environment. But border securitisation & militarisation are threatening people's fundamnetal rights and the ability to move.

Samuel Hall’s Research Manager Giulio Morello with Joelle Rizk write about how 'climate risks, conflict & increasingly unfavourable policy frameworks have disrupted mobility-based resilience strategies in Central Sahel' in Forced Migration Review's issue on ‘Climate Crisis and Displacement.’

The authors highlight that it is essential that states and other actors involved in border management integrate a rights-based approach reflecting the realities of cross-border mobility within the region.

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