What is World System Analysis

This chapter's objective is to examine the phenomenon of climate migration using the theories of securitization, externalization of borders, and analysis of world systems. By examining the opportunities and barriers related to the issue, the chapter attempts to explain how circumstances and structures have restricted the rights of climate refugees in the contemporary international system. The world system analysis discusses the underlying principles of the present world system; how they have led to climate migration, and how they have also been responsible for governments' desires to maintain their sovereignty. Implementing various procedures, such as the externalization of borders to stop the fictitious threat that climate refugees are perceived as, has resulted in the securitization of migration, which the world system analysis can explain. The chapter draws conclusions based on history and recent events to shed light on the question of what role climate refugees play in the current global order.