Tina Shull on ‘How climate change is fueling migration worldwide’
Tina Shull, associate professor and director of Public History, joined the Charlotte Talks podcast ‘How climate change is fueling migration worldwide’ with Mike Collins, alongside Lawrence Huang, a policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute, and Alexandra Tempus, a freelance journalist covering climate issues.
As the United States is already facing the substantial alterations in weather dynamics leading to disasters such as Hurricane Helene and the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, the experts discussed how migration patterns are impacted through those who migrate and those who cannot.
“As much as climate change displaces people, migration researchers have also been finding that it renders people stuck in place in many instances,” Shull said. “It’s important to include the immobility that climate change can also bring, not only due to borders and bordering policies that disallow people from moving, but also social policies that have set up patterns of historical disadvantage, that includes poverty, people lacking access to rights, privileges, and resources to be able to move.“