{"id":60134353,"date":"2026-05-27T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/?p=60134353"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:30:32","slug":"leaving-home-when-home-is-no-longer-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/leaving-home-when-home-is-no-longer-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Home: When home is no longer home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These are the numbers. Weather-related disasters forced people to leave their homes nearly 30 million times in 2025, according to new data<\/a> from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). This was 13% above the ten-year average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

East Asia and the Pacific accounted for 59% of the total, with a majority displaced by monsoons in November. Wildfires are becoming a significant driver, causing 694,000 people to flee, the second highest figure in the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving Home<\/p>

This is the last of a four-part series on displacement shaped by conflict and climate extremes. Across Africa, Asia and Latin America, it has followed people uprooted by war, fire, drought, floods and political decisions. These experiences are shaped by specific histories but bound by a shared question: what remains of home when home itself is always under threat?<\/p>

Read parts one<\/a>, two<\/a> and three<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The data is stark. And yet, it captures only part of the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IDMC produces the most widely recognised figures on internal displacement, based on a range of different sources \u2013 from government figures to UN agency reports. And yet, its figures cannot capture everyone: there are those not counted because humanitarian services cannot reach them; those who move gradually as livelihoods collapse; those forced to cross international borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taken separately, these numbers tell one story: disasters are a growing driver of movement. Conflict too is forcing people from their homes in huge numbers. In fact, conflict displacements increased by 60% year on year, according to the IDMC. And as Dialogue Earth\u2019s Leaving Home series has shown, a person\u2019s reason for leaving can rarely be attributed to one cause alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around the world, people are not moving because of conflict or climate extremes in neat, separate categories. They move through systems in which war, weather, poverty, borders, livelihoods and political decisions collide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said \u201ccountless families\u201d were returning to destroyed homes or found they were unable to return at all. \u201cSuch displacement is a sign of a global collapse in prevention of conflict and the basic protection of civilians,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a climate migrant?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A person may be described as a climate migrant when they move because of environmental changes caused or exacerbated by climate change. Often, there is a direct connection between environmental changes and the decision to leave home. A person whose home is destroyed by a wildfire is an example. Those living in rural areas, whose incomes are tied up in farming or fishing \u2013 activities that are strongly impacted by environmental changes \u2013 might also migrate, permanently or temporarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or the connection could be less direct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that leaving home is rarely motivated by a single factor can make it difficult to identify climate migration. According to one study<\/a>, some of the leading \u201cmacro\u201d contributors to migration are politics, economic factors and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants are influenced by several drivers when they decide to move and often find their places of refuge under similar strain. As we saw in Kenya\u2019s Kakuma camp, people who have fled war and insecurity find themselves combating flood, drought, heat, shrinking food support and restricted livelihoods. In Afghanistan, families forced back across the border returned not to stability, but to a country marked by conflict, poverty, earthquakes, floods, drought and the possibility of further displacement. And in Chile\u2019s Valpara\u00edso region, fire did not only destroy homes; it forced a community to confront whether staying itself had become a form of risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fahmida Miah, a programme manager at Climate Outreach, an environmental NGO, highlighted the subtle difference between displacement and migration. \u201cDisplacement is much more extreme and sudden. You see an entire village swept away by floods,\u201d she explained. \u201cOther people might see that the area is changing over 10 years. And you start to plan in response to that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex de Sherbinin of the Columbia Climate School said: \u201cYou have forms of displacement, and then migration itself can be broken down into forced and voluntary. There is no binary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the numbers show, and what they miss<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is little definitive data on climate migration, so there is no single authoritative number for climate migrants. The IDMC data<\/a> released earlier this month recorded 29.9 million internal displacements by disasters last year. Over the past decade, people have left their homes some 294.6 million times because of disasters such as floods, earthquakes and fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The numbers that do exist do not capture the scale of the crisis. \u201cWe see climate change as a risk amplifier,\u201d says IDMC\u2019s Alice Baillat. \u201cWe know it can amplify the frequency and the intensity of weather-related hazards, but it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that every flood or storm is attributed to climate change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The IDMC data also only takes into account internal displacement. While the majority<\/a> of climate migration does happen within borders, the data does not reflect those who are forced to leave their own country. \u201cWe do not look at cross-border movement,\u201d Baillat said. \u201cOur figure, unfortunately, is an underestimate of the reality of population movement due to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, it only refers to displacement caused by disasters<\/em>. This means it misses migration driven by gradual changes to the environment caused by climate change. If farmland becomes less productive, for example, a family may decide to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academics have made other attempts to model or predict migration patterns linked to climate change. The most significant research in this field is the Groundswell reports prepared by the World Bank. The first edition, published in 2018, predicted<\/a> that without action up to 3% of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America will need to move by 2050. The second<\/a> revised the total figure in a worst-case scenario upwards from 143 million to 216 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all these numbers grapple with a problem: people who are forced to leave home are unlikely to view themselves as \u201cclimate migrants\u201d, particularly when environmental change is just one of the several factors that influence their decision. \u201cIt is rare you find someone who confidently calls themselves a climate refugee or climate migrant, because of the intersectionality of the issue,\u201d Miah said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can we do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are very few easy answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relocation before environmental conditions make an area unsafe, or \u201cmanaged retreat\u201d, is a promising solution<\/a>, but there are several challenges in its application. A 2023 study<\/a> found that relocation plans sometimes proved financially damaging to those affected, and that community-led plans usually had better outcomes than those led by government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Sherbinin also highlighted the risks of \u201ctrapped\u201d populations, who are being adversely affected by climate change but are unable to move, often because of a lack of finances, or documents, or fear of a loss of identity. A paper published<\/a> in 2025 warned that while populations are increasingly vulnerable to climate change impacts, some \u201clack the agency to move out of harm\u2019s way\u201d. This \u201cinvoluntary immobility\u201d is insufficiently addressed in policy, it concludes. \u201cA poor agriculturalist without a passport and frankly very little power in the world clearly has more constraints than someone with a PhD in a developed country,\u201d De Sherbinin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposed solutions have included cash transfers<\/a> or mobility grants for trapped communities or more investment in adaptations like flood defences<\/a> or drought-resistant agriculture<\/a>. Some groups are starting to propose<\/a> a \u201cright to stay\u201d as part of legal frameworks, De Sherbinin said. \u201cWe know enough now to say the poor and the least politically connected tend to suffer the greatest consequences,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need to do things to intervene and improve their ability to withstand these shocks in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miah said: \u201cIt’s difficult to untangle climate change from the systems it works within. You’re more likely to see people say [they are moving] because of poverty or economic reasons or war \u2013 things that feel a bit more tangible to us than climate change. But if you take a few steps back that becomes \u2018the increased floods impacted my livelihood.\u2019\u201d

This means climate migration policy cannot only be about predicting movement. It must be about what makes movement necessary; what protection people find, or do not find, after they move; and what would allow them to remain safely where they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where data fails to fully capture a human crisis. A person may leave because of war and then live with drought in refuge. A family may be returned across a border into a country already weakened by disaster and a community may stay and rebuild and yet know that the next season could undo everything. None of these experiences fits neatly inside one category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving Home has followed that unsettled space: not only the moment people depart, but the longer condition in which home becomes harder to rely on. As shelter, as memory, as livelihood, as promise. The question then, is not only when someone becomes a climate migrant. The question is what happens when home is no longer home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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