Immigration Control in a Warming World : Realizing the Moral Challenges of Climate Migration

In the course of the twenty-first century, climate change is projected to significantly increase the already weighty immigration pressures that rich countries in Europe and North America face. Estimates vary greatly from 50 to 500 million further migrants until 2050, most of them from developing countries that have contributed little to global warming. Meanwhile, the willingness of citizens in destination countries to let further foreigners immigrate is unlikely to keep pace with that increase.In fact, the concern with climate migration is a blurry, intricate and pressing one that will turn out.