Climate Change and Environment related Migration in the European Union Policy: An Organizational Shift towards Adaptation and Development

Applying the concept of organizational fields within an intra-organizational approach, this chapter traces the issue of ‘environmental migration’ and its institutional location within European Union (EU) structures. It argues that responses have been shaped by security actors within the EU before being integrated into climate change adaptation, regional partnerships and thematic issues vis-à-vis development cooperation in third countries. Moreover, an organizational shift in treating the linkages between environment and climate change and migration belies an institutional change. An accompanying change in modalities of responses may offer promising avenues to address the topic within a fledgling common approach to migration.