Review of 'Addressing Environmental Migration in the European Union Discourse'

Overall, the paper uncovers a significant topic and approaches it with a good level of completeness. The combination of different analyses has innovative value and relevant findings emerged for the field. I also found particularly relevant the jargon reflection that shows evidence of the lack of an overall recognition, and therefore, an overall methodological approach to deal with the theme. However, I believe the paper could be improved from the point of view of the structural organisations: 

First, the article shows evidence of a discrepancy between EU normative standards and expectations. However, in some parts of the paper (i.e., end of page 7), the main aim/objective seems weak and with small consistency with the introduction section. I would be bolder in systematically remembering the reader the main goal of the study.

Second, the methodology is somehow hidden in the text (mostly on page 8), and it would be much more understandable to have a dedicated section for this. A 'materials and methods' chapter would help frame all the approaches implied in the analysis:

• Manners’ normative power EU (NPE) concept;
• the securitization approach of the Copenhagen School of Security Studies
• a qualitative discourse analysis (QDA) applied to twenty years of EU discourse

Third, a final section for 'recommendations' or 'further research' could be added to emphasise the importance of the topic and open up discussion on future scenarios.  

Lastly, in terms of contents, it would be worthed to deepen the discussion regarding Global North and Global South; Migration in general, and Environmental migration in particular, is commonly associated with the South of the World. Nowadays, this conception is outdated and may be interesting to see how the EU normative is approaching it.