It was a pleasure working with the Phoenix team: Susan Rottmann, Ela Gokalp Aras, İnci Aksu Kargın, @karakoc.bsky.social & Shubhi Misra.
Many thanks to the reviewers whose feedback improved the manuscript immensely!

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Tokelauns protest against climate change during the Pacific Warrior Day of Action. (Te Mana: Litia Maiava )

By focusing on human agency, we highlight how local challenges vary and inform mobility decisions, what climate-affected communities actually want from policymakers, and how the top-down global narratives complicate the issue. A more grounded approach to climate mobility is long overdue.

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Most IOs approach climate mobility through a polycrisis or macrotrend lens, treating it as an inevitable crisis demanding extraordinary measures. But this framing overlooks local realities, complexity of mobility decisions, and resilience of people. It reduces choices to forced displacement.

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New article out @climdevjournal.bsky.social! 🌍✍️
Our article “Human Agency” at the special issue of Climate Mobilities argues that international organizations miss a crucial piece in climate mobility debates: human agency and local realities. There are 50 free eprints here 👉 tinyurl.com/2pdum92e

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