Description
Migration is a natural phenomenon that can take place in any part of the world around the year. There are several push and pull factors that led people to migrate from one place to another place and sometimes from country to country. Climate change is an emerging potential driver of human migration around the globe which is not a traditional factor of human mobility. The problems of rising climate migration are being seen in several places in Central Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe as well. Central Asian countries are facing a huge impact of climate migration due to climate change and its repercussions. Several reports disclosed by Environmental Change and Forced Migration Scenarios (EACH-FOR), International Organization for Migration (IMO), and UN Population Fund 2010 identified 23 global climate migration hotspot areas where three Central Asian Countries such as Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan were considered as affected regions due to Environmental degradation. According to World Bank’s 2009 combined report on climate change in Europe and Central Asia, Tajikistan ranks first, Kyrgyzstan third, and Uzbekistan sixth in terms of climatic vulnerability. Presently, the population of climate migrants in the entire Central Asia is projected to be 1.7 million which is expected to increase to 2.4 million people by 2050 (3.4 percent of the total population in CARs). This includes both internal and external migration where people’s lives are compromised due to the critical inhabitable condition around them. Particularly, the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan is facing the worst status in the global climate change crisis. Climate-in and -out-migration in the Karkalpakstan region occur because of the prevalence of insecurity in health, agricultural, and food sectors and the failure of Central Asian countries’ climate change adoption strategy. The nearest and associated Man-Made disaster of the Aral Sea crisis is another significant key driver of forced climate migration in Karakalpakstan and the Central Asian Region. This paper will go through the deep analysis of historical, political, and regional causes of the present-day situation in Central Asia and also discuss their national, regional and international level strategies to combat climate migration in the coming days.
