The obscuration of climate-induced mobility : A discourse analysis of the EU governance

Sammanfattning: Climate changes and disasters are evidently contributing to migration and displacement of people all over the world, including Europe, and yet, climate-induced mobilities seem to be neglected in EUs internal policies. The aim of this study is to use discourse analysis and the Foucauldian inspired framework “analytics of governance”, to analyze and understand the shaping and construction of EU policies on climate-induced mobility. The findings indicate obscuration of the issue, a prominent securitisation and ecomodernist discourse, and limited commitment to vulnerability and climate justice. It confirms previous studies that the EU governmentality is dominated by security and ecomodernism, resulting in practices that don’t manage climate-induced mobilities. These dominant structures must be questioned, institutions held responsible, and transformative options that are human-centered and sustainable must be adopted. No one is immune to climate change.