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Chiara Scissa of the University of Bologna examines how people displaced by disasters can obtain international protection under European Union law in her Routledge book 'Disaster Displacement and International Protection in the EU: Challenges, Misconceptions, and the Way Forward'.
The book's announcement stresses that disasters trigger more than three times as many displacements as conflict and violence and rank among the main drivers of displacement worldwide. The book addresses the challenges and misconceptions this phenomenon meets in EU asylum and protection law.
The treatment of persons displaced by disasters within international protection under European Union law.
The question of which protection statuses EU law can offer to people displaced by disasters is gaining weight; the book provides a current point of reference for that debate.
Routledge · 2026
DOI 10.4324/9781003626824