The Displaced

This chapter discusses the question of climate migrationMigration, Migrantclimate migration and reads a series of texts that follow climate refugeesRefugeeclimate refugee as they cross, or are prevented from crossing, heavily guarded US national or state borders. The chapter shows how some American Climate Emergency Narratives employ allegory to cast the racialized climate refugeeRefugeeclimate refugee as a border-scaling monster, but it also reveals how even texts that seek to critique the racist ideology that informs extractive capitalist border-thinking focus on the future plights of the white majority.