Considering Migration and Its Effects on Coastal Ecosystems

Curran, Sara R.; Agardy, Tundi

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“…The area of strongest convergence with labour migration deals with the role of social networks in conveying resources and decreasing costs of migration, which has been noted in population-environment literature (see Curran, 2002). However, we found that environmental stresses, catastrophic flooding in particular, widen the network of individuals willing to facilitate a broader range of migration alternatives.…”

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confidence: 50%

“…Labour migration is a well-developed literature with rigorous and sophisticated methodological approaches in its own right. This paper responds to recent calls to explore overlaps in environmental migration and labour migration theories (Adger, Kelly, Winkels, Huy, & Locke, 2002;Curran, 2002;Hunter, 2005;Laczko & Aghazarm, 2009;Warner, 2010; and in an applied sense Johnson & Krishnamurthy, 2010), flagging some of the insights for the environment-migration nexus.…”

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Labour migration amidst ecological change

Wrathall

Suckall

2016

Migration and Development

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One of the grand questions for research on the impacts of climate change is whether people can rely on migration to safeguard progress towards development even while experiencing severe environmental hardship. This is the 'migration as adaptation' hypothesis. Labour migration theory proposes assumptions about the use of migration by people faced with economic uncertainty and limited access to capital to raise standards of development. This paper asks how environmental stress affects labour migration, and evaluates the labour migration arising from a spectrum of ecological stress, from increasingly variable precipitation to catastrophic flooding in Honduras and Malawi. Evidence suggests that environmental stress changes the nature of labour migration. New environmental forms of mobility do not take forms predicted by labour migration theory; migrations are not made with the purpose of exploiting economic opportunities; they do not take place on the basis of rational choice, particularly as displaced persons are frequently emotionally stressed; and among environmental migrants are those less likely to be able to absorb costs and extract benefits associated with migration (i.e. the unwell, the elderly or the unskilled). Nevertheless, social networks still remain the principal medium for conferring access to labour alternatives and resources to invest in migration. In the end, the remittances that environmental migrants send are less likely to be used for investment in development.

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Labour migration amidst ecological change

Wrathall

Suckall

2016

Migration and Development

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“…Various studies consider population movements and its connection to the environment, particularly internal migration, and look at, for example, migration decision-making and the role that the environment plays in such decisions (e.g., Carr 2005), land cover change and land use changes (e.g., Carr et al 2009), coastal migration and resource management (e.g., Eder 2008), migration and coastal environmental outcomes (e.g., Curran and Agardy 2004), and conservation and development in frontier areas (e.g., Haenn 2005). Other work illustrates how the environment is the main driver for out-migration (Suhrke 1994).…”

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Land and leña: linking transnational migration, natural resources, and the environment in Guatemala

Moran-Taylor

Taylor

2010

Popul Environ

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This article examines the relationships between international migration, natural resources, and the environment. Rather than looking at environmental change as a cause of population movements, the article reveals how migration affects the environment in sending countries. Empirically, we rely on a case study in Guatemala. Although migrants and cash remittances make significant contributions to Guatemala's changing economy, little is known about the relationships between migration and the environment in this Central American country-a country, which continues to have a large rural population and that relies heavily on its natural resources. Drawing on ethnographic research and household surveys in a Maya community, we reveal how migrants and their earnings, as well as their ideas, behavior and attitudes, affect land use, land cover, and firewood use. We reveal, for example, how in addition to investments in land for home building and pick-up trucks to help improve agricultural production, some migrant households purchase more land and often dedicate it to the cultivation of vegetable crops for local and foreign markets. Cultural practices and beliefs directly linked to land and the environment, particularly maize cultivation, also alter due to migration processes. And, despite the ability of migrant households to transition to more efficient fuels like liquid propane gas (LPG), we show how they continue to use firewood. In all, the study contributes important insights into the environmental implications of migration.

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“…Following this second definition of adaptation, there is increasing evidence in demographic communities that migration has historically been one example of adaptation to the impacts associated with weather events (Curran, 2002;Feng & Oppenheimer, 2012;Hunter, 2005;Hunter et al, 2012;López-Carr, 2012;McLeman & Hunter, 2010;Nawrotzki et al, 2013;Runfola, Riosmena, Leyk, Hunter, & Nawrotzki, 2013;Runfola & Romero-Lankao 2013). This work has evolved alongside broader climate vulnerability research, and many clear parallels between demographic conceptualization of vulnerability and the broader communities can be drawn.…”

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Migration, climate, and international aid: examining evidence of satellite, aid, and micro-census data

Runfola

Napier

2016

Migration and Development

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Over the last ten years, an increasing quantity and quality of data regarding migration and climate risk has become available, leading to a broad body of research examining the relationships between climate impacts on livelihoods and corresponding migratory patterns. This research has provided evidence that migration can serve as an adaptive strategy if local livelihoods are threatened. However, little research has examined the responseor lack offrom the international aid and donor community in response to these shifts. In this paper, we take the first step toward examining this relationship, utilizing a recently produced database on the sub-national spatial allocation of international aid from 1998 to 2012 in Malawi. We examine the research question: what is the sub-national relationship between international aid and migratory patterns? To analyze this question, we integrate sub-national micro-census information with satellite-derived measurements of climate and the spatial location and amount of international aid. We find evidence that (1) aid does not reduce the likelihood of migration from a location and (2) increased levels of migration do not increase the likelihood of aid being sent to a location.

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Considering Migration and Its Effects on Coastal Ecosystems

Cited by 10 publications

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Labour migration amidst ecological change

Labour migration amidst ecological change

Land and leña: linking transnational migration, natural resources, and the environment in Guatemala

Migration, climate, and international aid: examining evidence of satellite, aid, and micro-census data

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