Despite the potential importance of migration for the link between climate change and conflict, we still have a limited understanding of the precise mechanisms underlying these relationships. For shedding new theoretical and empirical light on this, we provide a study at the micro level that focuses on one mechanism linking environmental migration to conflict: environmental migrants suffer to a large degree from environmentally induced grievances, making them ultimately more likely to perceive conflict and challenges in their new homes. We examine and further develop this argument before analyzing newly collected micro-level data from five countries with quantitative methods. The results emphasize that not all environmental migrants are equally likely to perceive conflict, and that migrants who have experienced long-term, gradual environmental events in their former location are more conflict-prone than migrants of short-term, sudden environmental events.

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