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Record W4407396561 · doi:10.1093/jrs/feaf008

Climate Displacement By Jamie Draper

2025· article· en· W4407396561 on OpenAlexaff
Étienne Sinotte

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Refugee Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClimate Change, Adaptation, Migration
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLibrary sciencePoliticsDisplacement (psychology)HistoryMedia studiesArt historyPolitical scienceSociologyPsychologyLawComputer sciencePsychoanalysis

Abstract

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In his first book, Jamie Draper examines climate displacement under the light of political theory. More specifically, driven by empirical cases from the literature, he sets out to map the moral terrain of this issue and to provide normative guidance for states and the international community. The author argues that a treaty for climate refugees, establishing a specific status for people displaced by climate change, is based upon an idealized understanding of climate displacement, as it does not consider the complexity—climate change is generally part of a broader set of drivers for displacement—and the heterogeneity—the variety of ways it presents itself in—of this type of displacement. Therefore, such treaties would arbitrarily protect people subject to a particular form of displacement, but not others in similar situations whose only difference is that they are not displaced by climate change. They would also provide every person falling under that status with the same set of rights regardless of their needs, which fails to consider climate displacement’s heterogenous outcomes. Both arguments are reminiscent of critiques levelled at the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, as addressed in Chapter 6. To remedy the pitfalls of a treaty for climate refugees, Draper develops a pluralist theory of climate displacement, which sets aside the concept of climate refugee and instead champions an approach ‘which disaggregates climate displacement and integrates it with non-climatic forms of displacement, rather than proposing principles for an idealized climate refugee’ (p. 20). While Draper’s rejection of a treaty for climate refugees is not groundbreaking, as it notably aligns, as he points out, with Jane McAdam’s critiques of such a tool (McAdam 2011), one of his significant contributions lies in the robust, wide-ranging and cohesive moral argumentation supporting this stance, and the normative solutions he proposes.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.050

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.082
GPT teacher head0.401
Teacher spread0.319 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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