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There’s no legal definition of a climate refugee - does that matter?
When Amali Tower first started interviewing asylum seekers as part of resettlement work with international organisations in the early 2000s, she thought climate change was a “white people problem” myopically focused on polar bears on melting ice floes.Â
She was open and chatty, and in her broad conversations she started