Abstract
“What is climate migration?” Climate migration has developed to become a popular topic within most platforms. Stretching from media, policy circles, academia and civil society most platforms seems to have an opinion on climate migration and is eager to share it. Pictures and narratives on what and who a climate migrant is divided between framings of victims, security threats and resilient entrepreneurs. A broad variety of multiple understandings of the phenomenon coexist, however, currently there are no global consensus on what climate migration is. It appears contradictory that the issue of climate migration is globally unsettled, yet it is increasingly gaining attention with multiple approaches and solutions. The research aims to rely on another path than the mainstream literature in order to understand the case before trying to solve it. This research provides a different motive by starting the research with the following question: “what is a climate migrant?”. For this reason, the research aims to deconstruct the concept of climate migration in order to bring stronger clarity to different ontological, ideological and political understandings of the phenomenon. This study suggests that the climate migrant in generally represented as a symbol of binary ontologies.