Migration is a conditio humana that has existed from the very beginning and is influenced by many factors: political, economic, demographic, social and environmental. The latter has been addressed in the light of human-induced climate change and its consequences for the living environment of many people around the world. Along with the growing concern about pressing issues of global warning, rising sea levels, desertification of the soil, droughts and floods, the fear of the complete degradation of many physical areas has been addressed. In my thesis, based on a case study of Bangladesh, the main question is, whether climate change is the reason for migration per se, or the result of various factors, that are both analytically and empirically impossible to address separately and have to be taken in account when talking about migration.
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