Contrasted Views on Environmental Change and Migration: the Case of Tuvaluan Migration to New Zealand

For Tuvalu migrants environmental change has no impct on their decision to migrate as their primary source of income and livelihood is rarely based on environmental or natural resources. However, climate change has impacted Tuvaluans indirectly through the living conditions and the resulted psychological effects as in fears, feelings or migration motivations in response to climate change and sea level rise.