TY - JOUR TI - Circular Migration as Climate Change Adaptation: Reconceptualising New Zealand´s and Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programs JO - Precedente: Anuario Juridico;Vol. 3 PB - Universidad Icesi PY - 2013 issn 16576535 AB - This paper looks into an aspect of adaptation, namely the role of the circular migrtion as climate change adaptation. It focuses on two of the Pacific region’s recently well -known seasonal labor schemes, Namely Australia’s Seasonal Workers Program (SWP) and New Zealand ‘s recognized Seasonal Employer Scheme (RSE), and asks if beyond the current goals the schemes May be reconceptualsed as adaptation programs responsive not only towards developmental and economic Concerns but the wider (and interconnected With the first two) climate change challenges. According to MacDer mott and Opeskin, labor mobility schemes, for the sending country focus on the “development perspective “such as (a) Employment Opportunities, (b) Regular benefits of Remittances and (c) skills enhancement, while receiving countries country can meet the challenges posed by labor shortages in seasonal industries where “a reliable workforce is lacking”. KW - Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales KW - Producción intelectual registrada - Universidad Icesi KW - Precedente: Anuario Juridico KW - Circular migration KW - Climate change KW - Adaptation KW - Human migration KW - Cambio climático KW - Adaptación KW - Migración humana UR - http://www.icesi.edu.co/revistas/index.php/precedente/article/view/1724 ER -