Panel: Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean

Co-organised by the MRG, the Environmental Politics research cluster and the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, this panel will focus on the impacts of climate change and disasters on the internal displacement of people in Latin America. It will discuss the issue historically, legally and socially. The panellists also adopt an intersectional approach, considering the impact of environmental internal displacement on children, women and girls and indigenous populations.

They will talk about their newly launched book: "Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean: Legal and Policy Approaches 

This event will be hybrid. If you would like to join online, here is the link: https://meet.google.com/eru-vdoj-tmg
or dial: ‪(GB) +44 20 3957 3058‬ PIN: ‪137 640 605‬#

About the panellists: 

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico holds a PhD in Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a professor at the Graduate Programme of International Relations at Paraiba State University, Brazil, where she is De Mello Chair coordinator and the Study and Research Centre on Environmentally Displaced Persons (NEPDA) Founding Coordinator. She is also a Full Research Collaborator at the Graduate Programme of Comparative Studies on the Americas, at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative, at the University of London/UK. More info here.

Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli holds a PhD in Political Science at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a lecturer in International Relations and Co-director of the Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is an expert in refugee children, family reunification, and asylum policies in Brazil and Latin America. She is an Associate Researcher of the Study and Research Centre on Environmentally Displaced Persons (NEPDA) and International Relations Centre (NUPRI/USP). More info here. 

Mabel Meneses Gutiérrez is a Lecturer in Postcolonial International Relations at Sheffield Hallam University. She conducted my PhD at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) funded by the Mexican Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT). Her work focuses on Transborderism and its policy implications at the US-Mexico border, specifically transborder students living in the Cali-Baja region. More info here.