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Climate migration: what the research shows is very different from the alarmist headlines

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Title
Climate migration: what the research shows is very different from the alarmist headlines
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/ab.xvhcyvpnf
Authors

Durand-Delacre, David, Farbotko, Carol, Fröhlich, Christiane, Boas, Ingrid

Abstract

Climate migrants still tend to move to places they know or have connections to through their social networks.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 142. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 November 2025.
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