The term “climate migration” seeks to elucidate the reasons behind individuals relocating from one place to another. It ascribes a primary motivation to movements that can be undertaken either willingly or unwillingly, temporarily, or permanently. Nevertheless, even when the primary reason for migration is clear, numerous additional elements affect the timing, destination, and manner in which an individual responds to a disaster by moving. Such complexity is mirrored in the concept of “displacement”: the migratory changes brought about by climate change are as turbulent and unpredictable as the weather events that instigate them.
