"This master’s thesis examines the important ways that speculative climate fiction and film re-imagine the plight of the climate refugee. Because human behavior drives climate change, the humanities are uniquely positioned to navigate cultural implications of a changing climate through speculative narratives. In the introduction, I build on the work of Shelley Streeby and others who argue that navigating ecological crises through literature may provide an emotionally intelligent view of climate-induced migration. In chapter one, I focus on Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower to explore how a near-future America destroyed by climate change informs progressive representations of climate refugees thinking communally. Building on Sonia Shah’s work in The Next Great Migration, this chapter explores how Butler’s Black feminist narrative illuminates the connections between refugees and the destructive forces of capitalism. In the second chapter, I turn to Bong Joon-Ho’s film Snowpiercer to examine the function of cinematic form within a culture obsessed with technological solutions to climate change. In conversation with Caroline Levine’s Forms, this chapter questions capitalist ideologies to argue that cinematic forms in general, and the cinematic climate refugee specifically, can challenge normalized ideas of technological climate solutions. The third chapter explores the Indigenous futurisms found in William Sanders’ “When This World Is All on Fire.” In conversation with Cherokee history and theories of ideology, this chapter discusses the ways that White climate refugees create ecological violence on Indigenous lands. Finally, a brief conclusion illustrates how literary forms contribute to rethinking climate refugee discourse. How are marginalized writers positing alternative epistemologies to confront dominant capitalist culture and reexamine environmental migrations? And how do climate refugees embody ecological crises in ways that reconnect habitual consumption to ecological violence.."--