What About the Human Side
of Climate-Induced Migration? The Role
of Universities in Improving Refugees’
Wellbeing by Implementing
the Sustainable Development Goals
Issa Ibrahim Berchin, João Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro,
Brenda Caroline Geraldo Castro, Jonas Moraes-Filho,
and José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
1 Introduction
The world is facing large scale involuntary migration as never before; however, these
refugees are treated as numbers, not as human beings. According to the International
Organization for Migration (IOM 2018), in the past few years, international migration
corresponded to more than 250 million people annually, from which 25.4 million
were conventional refugees (contemplated by international law) and 18.8 million
displaced by sudden-onset environmental disasters. Refugees frequently migrate to
cities, being in less developed zones, or refugee camps. In both situations, migrants
are exposed to countless threats like zoonotic diseases, diseases caused by poor
sanitation, violence, hunger and malnutrition.
I. I. Berchin (B) · J. Moraes-Filho
Faculdade ANCLIVEPA, São Paulo, Brazil
e-mail: issa.berchin@faculdadeanclivepa.edu.br
J. Moraes-Filho
e-mail: jonasfilho@faculdadeanclivepa.edu.br
I. I. Berchin · J. M. P. Ribeiro · B. C. G. Castro · J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Centre for Sustainable Development (Greens), from the Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
(Unisul), Florianopolis, Brazil
e-mail: brenda_carolyne@hotmail.com
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
e-mail: baltazar.guerra@unisul.br
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), from
the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_11
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of Climate-Induced Migration? The Role
of Universities in Improving Refugees’
Wellbeing by Implementing
the Sustainable Development Goals
Issa Ibrahim Berchin, João Marcelo Pereira Ribeiro,
Brenda Caroline Geraldo Castro, Jonas Moraes-Filho,
and José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
1 Introduction
The world is facing large scale involuntary migration as never before; however, these
refugees are treated as numbers, not as human beings. According to the International
Organization for Migration (IOM 2018), in the past few years, international migration
corresponded to more than 250 million people annually, from which 25.4 million
were conventional refugees (contemplated by international law) and 18.8 million
displaced by sudden-onset environmental disasters. Refugees frequently migrate to
cities, being in less developed zones, or refugee camps. In both situations, migrants
are exposed to countless threats like zoonotic diseases, diseases caused by poor
sanitation, violence, hunger and malnutrition.
I. I. Berchin (B) · J. Moraes-Filho
Faculdade ANCLIVEPA, São Paulo, Brazil
e-mail: issa.berchin@faculdadeanclivepa.edu.br
J. Moraes-Filho
e-mail: jonasfilho@faculdadeanclivepa.edu.br
I. I. Berchin · J. M. P. Ribeiro · B. C. G. Castro · J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Centre for Sustainable Development (Greens), from the Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
(Unisul), Florianopolis, Brazil
e-mail: brenda_carolyne@hotmail.com
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
e-mail: baltazar.guerra@unisul.br
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), from
the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_11
157