Forced Migration Review (FMR) will publish an issue on ‘Climate change: choices for displaced people’ in October 2025 and the call for article proposals is now live.
- Proposals due 8 May
- Articles due 10 July
The impacts of climate change are rendering homes uninhabitable, livelihoods unsustainable and lives at risk in hazard-prone areas around the world. Climate-related disasters displace millions of people each year. Communities who have already been displaced also experience the effects of climate change, increasing and exacerbating the problems they face.
These challenges demand responses — responses that first and foremost must uphold the rights of those directly affected to make choices about their next steps. As they seek new places to settle and live, develop alternative livelihoods and build new networks and communities, what choices do, or could, they have? Exploring these questions is the focus of this issue.
We will explore displacement and the impacts of climate change from the perspective of those most affected: people at risk of displacement, those who are currently displaced, and those building new lives beyond displacement. What choices are people making and why? Where are new options, opportunities and pathways needed, and what will it take to create these? What safeguards are needed to mitigate power imbalances and facilitate displaced people’s equitable access to resources and tools to address climate change impacts?
FMR is well known as a source of cutting-edge information and analysis that delivers nuanced insight to policymakers and practitioners. Authors will bring a wide range of perspectives, insights and experiences to the topic. The issue will include approximately 18-25 carefully selected articles, published in English, online and in print for a global audience.