Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in the Northeastern Backlands of Brazil

Andrea Pacheco Pacifico is Professor of International Relations at Paraiba State University, Brazil, where she is the Founding Coordinator of the Study and Research Centre on Environmentally Displaced Persons and Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair Coordinator. She is also Full Collaborator Researcher at the Graduate Programme of Comparative Studies on the Americas at the University of Brasilia and Senior Research Affiliate at the University of London Refugee Law Initiative (RLI). She has published 62 articles, 19 book chapters, and eight books, including A Network Society Communicative Model for Optimising the Refugee Status Determination System (2022) and Social Capital of Refugees: Cultural Background and Public Policy (2010).