![Rethinking Asylum on a Warming Planet](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/environment_1590242003.jpg)
The Teitiota family from a little-known Pacific island didn’t intend to become a catalyst for expanding the concept of asylum—but they became one anyway. In 2015, New Zealand denied the family’s asylum claim and deported them, despite the parents’ plea that their three children’s health and well-being were at risk amid crop failure, withering coconut [...]