Vicky Leta, American
Climate change is transforming global migration, 2020
Leta’s illustration demonstrates how climate disasters are often a driving force for migration, degrading refugee’s homelands at the hands of climate change and transforming the way global migration occurs. Her illustration utilizes color to symbolize how migrants search for greener pastures, often literally and metaphorically. However, she portrays how many migrants move due to necessity, not by choice, by having the young boy look backwards towards his burning home. Often the residents of countries accepting (or rejecting) refugees don’t understand this disheartening truth, furthering increasing the struggles of misplaced peoples. Increased wildlife intensity and occurrence is only one of many outcomes of climate change that have reshaped and exacerbated global migration. Label by Jordan Hadlock