Join us for our upcoming Critical Conversations seminar: Climate Change, Health, and Displacement in the Age of the Polycrisis, featuring Dr. Andrea Cortinois on April 28 at 12 pm ET. Register on Eventbrite.
Description
This talk offers an introductory reflection on the climate change/displacement/health nexus through the lenses of critical migration studies and critical political economy. It situates these issues within what has been described as a global polycrisis: the interaction of extreme concentrations of wealth and widening income inequalities; geopolitical and economic instability; and environmental devastation, biodiversity loss, and climate change. The presentation critically examines dominant narratives surrounding this nexus and raises broader questions about the role of border regimes and the governance of human mobility.
Speakers
Andrea Cortinois is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, cross appointed between the Global Health Program (Human Biology), Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in global migration and health, critical political economy of health, and global health. His research interests include the impact of the global economic regime and the polycrisis on displacement; migration as a global determinant of health, with particular attention given to mechanisms of inclusion/exclusion, precariousness, and detention/deportation; and the social costs of migration in countries of origin. As an integral part of his academic work, Andrea is also interested in issues of precarity, quality of life, and scholarship in the context of neoliberal academia and in the responsibilities of educators in the Anthropocene. He is currently a member of the World Health Organization Expert Review Committee for the 2026 Report on Climate Change, Migration, and Health and of the World Health Organization Expert Group for the Second World Report on the Health of Migrants and Refugees.