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Environmental Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Could We Hang Out Sometime?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2013

Benoît MAYER
Benoît MAYER*
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National University of Singapore, [email protected]
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Abstract

Several proposals for global legal governance of environmental migration have recently been published, almost exclusively by Western scholars. The present article denounces the geographical and intellectual disconnect between descriptive works on environmental migration as a phenomenon and the normative studies on the developments in law and governance. It suggests that this disconnect has resulted in a post-colonial approach towards tackling environmental migration, which could impede the protection of environmental migrants. While recalling that governance of environmental migration is most likely to succeed within a regional framework, this article pleads for a home-grown legal approach of environmental migration in the Asia-Pacific. Participating in a multilateral discussion is a unique opportunity for the rising countries of Asia and the Pacific to strengthen their growing diplomatic roles and to demonstrate their capacity in the development of liberal forms of transnational governance.

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Asian Journal of International Law , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 101 - 135
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*

PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. This article builds on a class paper presented as part of Associate Professor Simon TAY Seong Chee's seminar on International Law in Asia. It results from the encounter of a Western student with Asian critical research on international law, in particular the Third World Approaches of International Law. An earlier draft was circulated as a working paper for the Earth System Governance project. I wish to thank Ingrid Boas, François Crépeau, Aysem Mert, Alan Tan Khee Jin, and two anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier draft. All mistakes remain my own.

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