This multi-day symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, filmmakers, policy analysts, activists and journalists to attend to the complex set of relationships that cohere under the sign of the emergent quasi-legal category of “Climate Refugee” alongside the already problematic distinctions drawn between “political refugee” and “economic immigrant.” How are these deeply entangled displacements being conceptualized and produced by different scientific, legal, political, activist and artistic knowledge and practices, and how are these contested terrains forcing us to rethink the very idea of the future in a world in crisis? The United Nations’ recent recognition of access to clean and healthy environment as a human right, points to the increasing role of climate change in the displacement of peoples throughout the Global South. At the same time, we also attend to climate-induced displacements within the boundaries and at the borders of nation-states in the Global North in conversation with eco-feminist, decolonial and anti-racist thinkers and doers. Our University’s location on the Pacific Ocean, just north of the U.S.- Mexico Border, and as a "military town” on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay Nation, places crucial demands on us to amplify and to learn from the experiences of those displaced by the disproportionate effects of colonialism, militarism and extractivism on land, livelihoods and cultural legacies.