Environmental and Disaster Displacement Policy Organisational Cooperation between the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration

This book explores the involvement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the issue area of environmental and disaster displacement. In considering both agencies’ historical involvement, their response to Typhoon Haiyan, and first-hand accounts from both agency staff and other experts, this book outlines how inter-agency involvement in the issue area has been categorised by (real or imagined) divisions; of agency structures and mandates, activities, and even personalities. While historically inherited differences exist, environmental and disaster displacement has led to a converging of agency roles and amplified tensions, at a time when cooperation is most critical.

Chapter 1. International Organisations and the Climate-Migration Nexus.- Chapter 2. UNHCR Involvement 2008 – 2017.- Chapter 3. IOM Involvement 2008 – 2017.- Chapter 4. Typhoon Haiyan: Context, Actors and Response.- Chapter 5. Typhoon Haiyan: The Involvement of UNHCR and IOM.- Chapter 6. Individual Perspectives on Agency Involvement.- Chapter 7. Converging International Organisations in the Climate-Migration Debate./

Silvana Lakeman is an editor for an academic journal. She previously worked as a Marie Curie Doctoral Fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany. Her research evaluates the involvement of organisations in the areas of migration, environmental and disaster displacement, and climate change. She has worked in both a research and advisory capacity for a range of international and non-governmental organisations.