Attitudes towards climate change migrants
Attitudes towards climate change migrants
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对气候变化移民的态度
DOI：
10.1007/s10584-020-02697-3
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
M. Helbling
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作者：
M. Helbling
虽然气候变化已经成为西方社会的一个突出的政治和社会问题，但我们对这些社会将如何应对气候变化的一个潜在重要后果--移民流动增加--知之甚少。因此，本文通过在德国进行的一项具有代表性的在线调查，首次调查了工业化社会的公民在多大程度上愿意接受气候变化移民，特别是与其他移民和难民群体相比，以及他们接受气候变化移民的情况和原则。调查结果显示，气候变化移民获得的支持水平与政治难民（需要特别保护的移民）相当，这与对经济移民（通常不被视为需要特别保护）的态度形成鲜明对比。我们还看到，当人们意识到预期的移民人数相对较低时，他们更有可能接受气候变化移民的理由。虽然关于道德，矫正正义和国家能力的论点通常会导致类似的接受率，但对于受过高等教育的人和非环保主义者来说，后一种论点比前两种更重要。这项研究的结果使我们能够更好地为气候变化造成的移民流动增加可能出现的潜在冲突做好准备。
While climate change has become a salient political and social issue in Western societies, we know relatively little about how these societies will react to one of the potentially important consequences of climate change: increasing migration flows. By means of a representative online survey in Germany, this paper therefore investigates for the very first time to what extent citizens in industrialized societies are willing to accept climate change migrants, especially in comparison with other groups of migrants and refugees, and the circumstances and principles under which they would accept them. The findings show that climate change migrants receive high support levels comparable with those enjoyed by political refugees (migrants who need special protection) and that contrast with attitudes towards economic migrants (who are often not seen as in need of special protection). We also see that people are more likely to accept justifications for taking climate change migrants when they realize that the expected number of migrants is relatively low. While arguments about morality, corrective justice, and a country’s capacity lead to similar acceptance rates in general, the latter argument plays a more important role for highly educated people and non-environmentalists than the former two. The findings of this study allow us to better prepare for potential conflicts that might emerge with increasing migration flows caused by climate change.