Dr. Diogo Andreolla Serraglio
Freie Universität Berlin
ZI Lateinamerika-Institut
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Politikwissenschaft
Education
German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn, Germany.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, received May 2020.
- Honors: International Climate Protection Fellowship – Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation
- Project Title: Latin American and Caribbean legal responses to human mobility in the context of climate and other environmental changes.
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil.
- Ph.D. in Socioenvironmental Law, received February 2019.
- Thesis Title: Climate-induced mobility: socioeconomic feasibility from international insurance.
Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, White Plains, NY, USA.
- Visiting Scholar: September 2017 – May 2018
- Honors: Fulbright Scholarship
United Nations University (UNU), Bonn, Germany.
- Visiting Scholar: March – July 2017
- Masters in Environmental Law, received May 2014.
- Publications: The protection of environmental refugees under International Law: An analysis from the Risk Society Theory. Curitiba, Brazil: Juruá Editora, 2014.
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil.
- Specialization in Environmental Law, received December 2013.
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland.
- Specialization in International Environmental Law, received July 2013.
Faculdade de Direito de Curitiba (UNICURITIBA), Curitiba, Brazil.
- Law School Diploma, received February 2011.
Work Experience
Freie Universitat Berlin (FU Berlin), Berlin, Germany.
- March 2026 – Present
- Research Associate: Institute for Latin American Studies
- Conduct research and teaching activities in the field of Political Science, with a focus on the distinct dimensions of climate-related human mobility and Latin American studies. Contribute to the development and implementation of research projects, academic publications and international collaborations. Engage in interdisciplinary research.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
- May 2022 – February 2026
- Project Lead: Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategies (CLARS): Socio-Economic Vulnerabilities among Urban Migrants in the Lake Victoria Basin and Great Lakes Region
- Co-Principal Investigator in proposal submitted to the New Frontiers in Research Fund – International (NFRFI, Canada), and recipient of a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany) Eigene Stelle grant to lead work packages on participatory research into the cultural impacts of climate-related migration in Tanzania and on strategic policy recommendations through South-North knowledge exchange.
- Research Analyst: HABITABLE – Linking Climate Change, Habitability, and Social Tipping Points: Scenarios for Climate Migration
- Postdoctoral Researcher in the European Commission Horizon 2020 project, conducting qualitative analysis of approximately 700 in-depth interviews to assess micro- and meso-level coping strategies and adaptation in selected countries.
Summer Semester 2026
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Cambio climático, movilidad humana y desigualdades interdependientes en América Latina (Hauptseminar, MA)
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Human rights and politics in Latin America: The Inter-American System in practice (Modul III – Lateinamerika aktuell, BA)
Published Dissertation
Serraglio, D. A. (2014). The protection of environmental refugees under International Law: an analysis from the Risk Society Theory. Curitiba, Brazil: Juruá Editora.
Selected Articles
Serraglio, D. A.; & Thornton, F. (2024). Women on the move? Mainstreaming gender in policies and legal frameworks addressing climate-induced migration.Comparative Migration Studies, 12, Article 53.
Sterly, H.; Borderon, M.; Sakdapolrak, P.; Adger, N.; Ayanlade, A.; ... Serraglio, D. A.; ... Zickgraf, C. (2025). Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world. Global Environmental Change, 90, 102953.
Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S.; Serraglio, D. A.; Velez-Echeverri, J.; Madrigal-Pérez, M. F.; Castro-Buitrago, E. (2023). La movilidad humana en los litigios climáticos: Aportes de América Latina desde la perspectiva de los derechos humanos. Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, 14(1), 1–32.
Serraglio, D. A.; Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S.; Thornton, F. (2024). The multi-dimensional emergence of climate-induced migrants in rights-based litigation in the Global South, Journal of Human Rights Practice, huad066.
Serraglio, D. A.; Thornton, F.; Thornton, A. (2023). Trapped or staying put: governing immobility in the context of climate change, Frontiers in Climate, v.05, p.01 – 08.
Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S.; Serraglio, D. A.; Velez-Echeverri, J.; Madrigal-Perez, M. F.; Castro-Buitrago, E. (2023). La movilidad humana en los litigios climáticos: aportes de América Latina desde la perspectiva de derechos humanos, Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, v. XIV, p. 01 – 32.
Stange, G.; Pagogna, R.; Sterley, H.; Sakdapolrak, P.; Borderon, M.; Schraven, B.; Serraglio, D. A. (2023). Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management, Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, v.16, p.157 – 169.
Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S.; Serraglio, D. A. (2022). Lives on the move: Human rights protection system as justice spaces for climate migrants, Brazilian Journal of International Law, UNICEUB, v. 19, n. 01.
Serraglio, D. A.; Aleksandrova, M.; Schraven, B. (2021). Human mobility in the context of LFDD in Latin America and the Caribbean: A review of national climate and desertification policies, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Elsevier: vol. 50, p. 197-207.
MENDES, R.L.M; Serraglio, D. A.; Ferreira, H. S. (2020). Deforestation and fires in Brazil: Considerations from the Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal Biomes, Revista dos Tribunais, Thomson Reuters: vol. 1022, p. 41-58 (printed).
Serraglio, D. A.; Ferreira, H. S. (2019). Latin American and Caribbean countries’ approaches to human mobility in the context of the adverse effects of climate change, Brazilian Journal of International Law, UNICEUB: vol. 16, p. 90-115.
Serraglio, D. A.; Robinson, N. A.; Ferreira, H. S. (2019). Climate migration and resilient cities: a New Urban Agenda for sustainable development, The Journal of City Law, UERJ: vol. 11, p. 304-346.
Serraglio, D. A.; Mendes, R. L. M.; Ferreira, H. S. (2019). Activity of the Brazilian judiciary in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes aimed at combating global warming, UFG’s Journal of Law, UFG: vol. 42, p. 11-47.
Serraglio, D. A.; Kozicki, K.; Ferreira, H. S. (2019). The Massachusetts Vs. EPA case and the regulation of climate-related topics by the Supreme Court of the United States of America: an analysis from Ronald Dworkin’s Integrity and Chain Novel Theory, Journal of Environmental Law, Thomson Reuters: vol. 96, p. 301-332 (printed).
Yamamoto, L.; Serraglio, D. A.; Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S. (2017). Human mobility in the context of climate change and disasters: A South American approach, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Emerald Publishing Limited.
Serraglio, D. A.; Ferreira, H. S. (2017). National Policy on Climate Change and the Protection of the Amazon Forest, Environmental Policy and Law, IOS Press: vol. 46/6, p. 419-424.
Ramos, E. P.; Yamamoto, L.; Serraglio, D. A.; Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S. (2017). Towards a regional agreement on environmental displacement?Forced Migration Review, Oxford: FMR 56, p. 65-66.
Serraglio, D. A.; Ferreira, H. S. (2016). The analysis of REDD+ Mechanism aiming the climate change effects mitigation and the forestry biological diversity protection, Brazilian Journal of International Law, UNICEUB: vol.13(2), p. 76-93.
Serraglio, D. A.; Ferreira, H. S. (2015). The protection of environmental climate refugees and the recognition of fundamental Human Rights guarantees in the Risk Society, Journal of Environmental Law, Thomson Reuters: vol. 79 (printed).
Selected Chapters
Blocher, J. M., Serraglio, D. A., Beckmann, A. (2025). The rambling construction of the climate-migration-security nexus in the European Union. In A. R. Zito & E. Domorenok (Eds.), De Gruyter Handbook on European Union Environmental Policy. De Gruyter.
Serraglio, D. A.; Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S.; Burni, A. (2022). Integrating climate-induced mobility in climate and migration policies in Brazil: challenges and ways forward, Rectifying the protection gap for ‘Climate Refugees’: Where’s next? Cambridge University Press.
Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S.; Odriozola, I.; Serraglio, D. A. (2021). Derechos Humanos, cambio climático y movilidad: Una cuestión de (in)justicia climática, Justicia Climática, Tirant lo Blanch.
Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S.; Ramos, E. P.; Zamur, A. C. G.; Serraglio, D. A.; Odriozola, I.; Pallone, L. M.; Damacena, F. D. L.; Yamamoto, L.; Pinheiro, G. M. (2019). Climate change, extreme events and human mobility in Latin America: exploring the links through national laws and policies, Handbook of Extreme Weather and Climate Events: understanding and managing the extreme impacts of climate change, Springer.
Serraglio, D. A.; Mendes, R. L. M.; Ferreira, H. S. (2018). The activity of the Brazilian judiciary in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes aimed at combating global warming, Courts and the Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Serraglio, D. A.; Soccol, F. (2018). Belo Monte’s Dam environmentally induced displacements and development projects’ rights violation, Refugiados Ambientais, UFRR.
Serraglio, D. A.; Ferreira, H. S. (2017). The protection of environmental displaced people with regard to the social dimension of environmental rule of law, Direito Ecológico: Conceito, conteúdo, e novas dimensões para a proteção da natureza, IDPV.
Serraglio, D. A.; Ferreira, H. S. (2016). REDD+ as a climate change mechanism, Climate Change Law, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Selected Reports
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
La movilidad humana derivada de desastres y el cambio climático en Centroamérica.
Migration, environment, disaster, and climate change data in the Eastern Caribbean.
University for Peace (UPEACE)
Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH)
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Other Opinion Pieces and Blog Posts
Serraglio, D. A.; Cavedon-Capdeville, F. S.; Ramos, E. P. (2025). Disaster- and climate-related human mobility in the Americas: A decade of progress since the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda. Blog post - Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney. 15 December 2025.
Serraglio, D. A.; Schraven, B.; Cuevas, N. B. (2022). Addressing human mobility in national climate policy: Insights from Updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in South America. Briefing Paper – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
Stange, G.; Sterly, H.; Sakdapolrak, P.; Borderon, M.; Schraven, B.; Serraglio, D. A.; Aleksandrova, M. (2020).
Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for trans-local strategies of environmental risk management.Environmental Migration Portal: Knowledge Platform on People on the Move in a Changing Climate – The COVID-19 Pandemic, Migration and the Environment (IOM Migration, Environment and Climate Change – MECC).Serraglio, D. A.; Aleksandrova, M.; Schraven, B. (2020). A real game changer? The implications of the UN’s ruling on ‘climate refugees’. The Current Column – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
Serraglio, D. A.; Schraven, B. (2019) Why we need to talk more about ‘climate migration’ in Latin America. The Current Column – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).