Climate Change Inducing Female Migration: An Empirical Study of the Tunisian Case.

CLIMATE CHANGE is evident, and changes are real. In large parts of the globe, people are not adapting to the changes happening and must move, leading to a new sort of migration: climate-induced migration as a forced migration. This natural disaster is not gender neutral and Tunisian women are genuinely concerned; they are even impacted by climate change more than their male peers.
Still, there is no long-term effect, so the climate will further deteriorate, and related migration will be more prominent. Thus, the imposed or copied solutions proved inefficient in this case. However, more open borders policies and a less "paranoid" narrative about migration in the Global North can be an adequate solution for (forced) climate migration.

This paper will analyze the linkage between women's empowerment and effective global climate action. To do so, we uphold a critical approach to prove that more gender equality means less climate-induced migrations from the Global South. This
ethnographic study is based on a mixed methodology based on semi-structured interviews with ten Tunisian female agriculture workers (1), discourse analyses of interviews with migrant women and (2) qualitative analyses of the different impacts of climate change on Tunisian women using second source data (3). In the first part, we briefly overview women's migration in Tunisia, the gender inequality situation, and the climate change impact.

The second part is dedicated to our literature review and the ongoing debate on climate migration as a new sort of forced migration. Would climate change apply to asylum seekers? and why not? While the third part is dedicated to discuss and analyze the results of our fieldwork, the last part will conclude with some major inputs and recommendations.