Anupam Patra
Volume-XI, Issue-IV, July 2023
Volume-XI, Issue-IV, July 2023 | ||
Published Online: 31.07.2023 | Page No: 204-216 | |||
Environmental
Migration: A Case Study in India & Bangladesh
Anupam Patra, Ph. D. Research Scholar, Jadavpur
University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India | |
The problem of climate migration has emerged as a new global security problem in the world. About 80 million people have been forcibly displaced in the world due to climate change, and about 26 million people have become refugees. Also, about 45.7 million people have been separated from their homeland and about 4.2 million people have become displaced from their homeland. Due to irregular climate changes, sea level rise, drought, floods, drinking water shortage and increasing seawater salinity, deforestation, extreme pollution, etc. are the growing climate migrations in the world (Ari & Gokpinar 2020). The two South Asian countries India and Bangladesh are no exception. Also, India and Bangladesh have faced an internal migration problem, especially to the coastal areas of both sides of the Sundarbans. As such Sagar Island, Ghoramara Island, and Mousuni Island of the coastal areas at South 24 Parganas District in West Bengal of India, and Barisal, Noakhali, Khulna etc of the coastal areas of Bangladesh. | |
Keywords: Environmental Migration, Displacement, India, Bangladesh, Sundarbans, Coastal Area, Cyclone. |