Purpose: The assignment will help assess learners’ understanding of environmental migration.
Guidelines: Select an event that occurred due to environment-triggered human migration in the past decade. Environmental triggers include natural disasters such as tsunamis, floods, famines, and pandemics or human-created emergencies such as wars, genocides, and religious persecutions. Research literature on it and answer the following prompts using the template. Must use at least 2-3 scholarly resources on the incident.
- Summarize the information in the reading. (One paragraph of 5-6 sentences)
- Identify whether the environmental migration is due to a natural disaster or human-made emergency, and if it is intranational or international. (1-2 sentences)
- In the example, which social factors intersected and impacted the environmental migration? (Two paragraphs, each 5-6 sentences)
- Discuss 2-3 physical and mental health impacts of environmental migration on people. Next, how do you view your role as a healthcare professional in advocating for people displaced by an environmental migration? (Two paragraphs of 5-6 sentences each)
