@jmhattem
SHELTER FROM THE STORM: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS CREATING A NEW ERA OF MIGRATION out now: https://thenewpress.org/books/shelter-from-the-storm/ Editor of the Migration Information Source from the Migration Policy Institute: bit.ly/SourceSignUp
As my colleague Lawrence Huang says on this podcast, South Korea is basically trying to speedrun the west's immigration lessons of multiple decades
Listen and subscribe and leave a nice review
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* US closes its embassy in Kuwait
@apnews.com
More than 20,000 Israelis return since start of Iran war, ministry says reut.rs/4rQTTP8
There it is: Noem out, Mullin in
"hundreds of millions more people worldwide are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...
Camp East Montana in El Paso is currently under quarantine following a measles outbreak and cases of tuberculosis.
My breaking story:
people used to be very drunk all of the time
one of the side stories of the Iran conflict is what it means for the perception of places like the UAE as destinations for the international wealthy
Especially as Russians had left the EU/UK amid the war in Ukraine, the Gulf had been cashing in on well-to-do foreigners. Does that change?
We love to see it! Sithamparappillai Jegatheepan, a Sri Lankan baker who arrived in France in 2003, has just won best baguette in Paris. He wins €4,000 and a year-long contract baking for Macron
www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/la-...
"Sanctuary" policies undercut immigration enforcement during Trump's first term and under Obama. Are they doing the same under Trump?
My smart colleagues try to unravel
"In nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states, the number of Americans arriving to live and work is at a record and rising," reports WSJ, stitching together a variety of data
www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
new episode of the @migrationpolicy.bsky.social "Changing Climate Changing Migration" podcast just posted!
@doctora-nature.bsky.social talk about displacement of Indigenous communities
Find it wherever you get yr podcasts
NEW: Here’s our searchable list of federal judges who have ruled on the legality of ICE’s mass detention policy — with links to key decisions by each.
At least 380 district judges have rejected it in ~3,800 cases. 31 have upheld ICE’s approach ~180 times
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
How does cinema shape how we think about migration?
In my new article I analyse 410 films, documentaries & TV series from 1940–2024 to explain how migration is represented on screen.
🧵 1/3
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration Julian Hattem. New Press, $29.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-62097-847-4 Journalist Hattem debuts with a deeply reported look at the new patterns of migration resulting from climate change. Hattem notes that humans “are an innately migratory species” and that environmental changes have always spurred migration but asserts that what is novel about the current moment is the pace of change. He takes readers to Bangladesh—“one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world”—where, due to displacement caused by river erosion, nearly 10 million people are considered “climate migrants.” In northwest Bangladesh, the average household has been displaced a whopping 4.6 times. He also presents the case of Guatemala, where increasing droughts will have nearly two million climate migrants on the move northward through Mexico by 2050, according to the World Bank. Excoriating anti-migrant narratives in the West as racist, Hattem notes the irony that if Western leaders really wanted to reduce migration, they would focus on combatting climate change and “make it easier for people to stay in place.” He observes that many people would indeed prefer to remain in place, and makes plain that mass migration can amount to a devastating cultural erasure, as with the case of Bangladesh’s Munda people, a rural, forest-worshipping Indigenous sect, whose way of life has been threatened by “climate induced scattering.” The result is an informative and troubling snapshot of the current state of the climate crisis. (Jan.)
Very honored by @publisherswkly.bsky.social review of Shelter from the Storm!
"a deeply reported look at the new patterns of migration resulting from climate change... an informative and troubling snapshot of the current state of the climate crisis"
www.publishersweekly.com/9781620978474
"if detention sites like Busmantsi sit at the margins of Europe geographically, they are increasingly central to the European Union’s immigration policies"
in-depth NYT Mag article looks at a migrant detention center in Bulgaria www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/m...
The International Organization for Migration says that almost 500 migrants have been reported dead or missing trying the cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya so far in 2026.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lawyers for the federal government have filed a motion to expedite the deportation of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in the blue conejo hat whose image rocketed around the world after federal agents detained him and his father in Minnesota last month. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
"'No to expulsion,' said Huda Abu Abed, 56, who returned after leaving in March for medical treatment. 'Nobody wants to leave their country.'”
Most Americans say it is acceptable to record video of immigration officers and share their locations
What Americans think is and isn't acceptable from immigration officers and the general public, per new @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
In countries across the world, anti-migrant vigilantism has been on the rise
In our Migration Information Source magazine, Matthijs Gardenier explains how these activists operate and how they seek to sway public perceptions
https://bit.ly/4a5IJOZ
In 15 minutes! Come join!
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Per former colleagues at the @washingtonpost : In a Zoom meeting today, Post foreign staff was told by editors that up to *half* the Post’s newsroom will be cut imminently. Biggest cuts to foreign and sports staff. Sickening.
That’s like 2008 levels of bloodbath
Come join us in this online event!
🌊 Floods & drought 🔥Wildfires & sea-level rise. Different climate events drive different migration patterns
On Jan 27: Vital Crest Foundation Director Rose Kobusinge, Zahid Shashoto from Uttaran Bangladesh & @jmhattem.bsky.social examine how climate change is reshaping migration
bit.ly/ccmigration26
“She was so anemic and hungry that she resorted to eating clay, digging out the top layer of earth to get to the cleaner soil below, and charcoal. Her chart showed she gained fewer than 10 pounds during her entire pregnancy. Her baby, Nuru, was born at 33 weeks, weighing about 3.5 pounds.”
The reader scores get the headline, but the real change is capping non-subscribers to read 4 reviews/month. Its just a paywall with the added "bonus" of this additional reader engagement level
very weird to hear the mayor of New York City say the words "Bolton Wanderers"
