La traductibilité de réfugiés environnementaux dans le contexte français

• Authors: Martinez Christine

Title variants

EN

The Translatability of Environmental Refugees in the French Context

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

We recently noticed increased media coverage of the expression/collocation réfugiés environnementaux. The aforementioned collocation is omnipresent in the French media; it has been circulating and has been in use for over twenty years. However, why has environmental refugee been chosen in English? The main argument is that this expression officially appeared as early as in 1985, in the report for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), so it is a UN term. There are currently other names that supplant it: déplacés or migrants; nonetheless, the term réfugié has a much greater impact given the implicity of its meaning. We shall see why the term réfugiés environnementaux/climatiques is in current use and why it is preferred to déplacés and migrants climatiques/environnementaux. The aim of this article is to detail the terms employed expanding on dictionary explanations, as well as to clarify the analysis of the journalistic and legal contexts. To conclude, we shall unveil the terms which seem to us best suited.

Keywords

EN

translation; terminology; media coverage; collocation; environmental refugees

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 203-214

Contributors

author

Martinez Christine

• Université de Varsovie

Identifiers

DOI

doi:10.34616/ajmp.2021.13