Displacement and climate change in the renewed European framework on migration and asylum: Insights from the practice in Spain and Italy

Abstract

This article aims to provide a first approximation whether the European Union recognizes the group of persons who flee their homes due to the effects of climate change, through its immigration and asylum policy, recently modified by the New Pact. Notwithstanding the importance of the European legal framework in this regard, the case of Spain and Italy as the two Member States currently facing most of the migratory pressure requires looking at how they address in their domestic law the phenomenon of climate displacement.