Resituating relaunched migration systems as emergent entities<i>manifested in</i>geographic structures

DeWaard, Jack; Ha, Jasmine Trang

doi:10.1093/migration/mnx066

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“…Feedback in this context is then relative to an individual's earlier migration decisions and can be linked to migration histories and life course decisions on which there is a vast literature (Skeldon, 1995;Odland and Shumway, 1993;DaVanzo, 1982 and1983;Carling, 2012). We aim to prove that this approach can provide interesting insights as well as be applied empirically and hope to contribute to the renewed interest in migration systems as discussed in Bakewell (2014) and DeWaard and Ha (2019).…”

Section: The Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 97%

Multiple moves and return migration within developing countries: A comparative analysis

Cattaneo

Robinson

2020

Population Space and Place

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This paper sheds new light on internal migration processes by estimating stylized migration histories for populations in 31 countries. The focus is on repeat migration and on return migration back to rural areas from urban areas. Migration histories are portrayed by introducing migration pathway matrices, representing the shares of the population (by gender) that have moved or stayed in rural and urban areas over three periods (childhood and two forward periods). Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the estimation of national migration pathway matrices was done with an information-theoretic procedure using maximum-entropy econometrics to estimate migration frequencies by population groups. Moving multiple times is found to be a consolidated practice in all countries analysed. Sizeable urban-to-rural migration flows are found, with rural returnees often contributing substantially to these flows. This phenomenon is more pronounced in countries in relatively early phases of economic development and among male migrants. For the sample of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, on average, 51% of men and 32% of women migrating from urban to rural areas are return migrants who lived in rural areas as children. Results indicate many migrants move multiple times: In the overall sample of countries, at least 43% of men and 36% of women who move once will move a second time (or more), accounting for nearly 120 million individuals. We find large differences in migration histories across genders, with these differences tending to be smaller for countries that are further along their economic development path and more urbanised.

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Multiple moves and return migration within developing countries: A comparative analysis

Cattaneo

Robinson

2020

Population Space and Place

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“…and ideas, and systems perspectives focus analytically on the factors that stimulate, direct, and sustain these origin-destination flows (Massey et al 1998). While systems perspectives are as “old as the scientific study of migration” (Fawcett 1989, 671), data improvements in the 1980s increased scholarly interest in this approach, and substantial theoretical and empirical progress has been made since then (DeWaard and Ha 2019; Hauer, Holloway and Takashi 2020b).…”

Section: Migration Systems As An Analytical Lensmentioning

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Time to Mainstream the Environment into Migration Theory?

Hunter

Simon

2022

International Migration Review

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As with all social processes, human migration is a dynamic process that requires regular theoretical reflection. This article offers such reflection as related to the role of the natural environment in contemporary migration research and theory. A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental contexts, as shifting social and ecological realities, are consequential to migration theory. In this article, we review some of this evidence, providing migration research examples that integrate environmental context and are applicable to core migration theories, including neoclassical economic and migration systems perspectives, the “push-pull” framework, and the new economics of labor migration. We suggest that neglecting consideration of the natural environment may yield misspecified migration models that attribute migration too heavily to social and economic factors, particularly in the context of contemporary climate change. On the other hand, we suggest, failure to consider migration theory in climate scenarios may lead to simplistic projections and understandings, as in the case of “climate refugees.” We conclude that migration researchers have an obligation to accurately reflect the complexity of migration's drivers, including the environment, within migration scholarship, especially in the context of global climate change.

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“…Previous research using a migration systems approach (Bakewell 2014; DeWaard and Ha 2017; Mabogunje 1970) has explored migration responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Curtis, Fussell, and DeWaard 2015; DeWaard, Curtis, and Fussell 2016; Fussell, Curtis, and DeWaard 2014). These studies have shown that migration systems from and to hurricane‐affected coastal counties in the Gulf of Mexico intensified, and involved more spatially concentrated and urban counties in the years immediately following the active and costly 2005 hurricane season (Curtis et al 2015).…”

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Differential Recovery Migration across the Rural–Urban Gradient: Minimal and Short‐Term Population Gains for Rural Disaster‐Affected Gulf Coast Counties

Curtis

DeWaard

Fussell³

et al. 2019

Rural Sociology

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Places affected or threatened by extreme environmental disturbances confront a number of significant issues, including whether their populations will stay the same or change through migration. Research on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita shows some displaced residents returned to their disaster‐affected communities once the built environment was restored, new migrants settled in affected places as part of the rebuilding effort, and the regional migration system grew more urbanized and spatially concentrated during post‐disaster years. Research also shows that not all disaster‐affected places recovered their populations. Our study examines whether differential recovery is systematically patterned along the rural–urban gradient. Using U.S. Census Bureau estimates and IRS county‐to‐county migration data, we investigate whether the 2005 hurricane season differentially exacerbated or altered previous migration trends across a rural–urban gradient that incorporates proximity to metropolitan areas and disaster‐related housing loss. We find a rural–urban differential in Gulf Coast recovery migration: The disaster boosted migration among non‐metropolitan counties, yet these increases were smaller and short‐lived compared to the patterns found for metropolitan counties, most especially high loss metropolitan counties. Our findings encourage theories of environmental migration to incorporate spatial differentiation and scenarios of environmental changes to account for differential impacts on settlement patterns across the rural–urban continuum.

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Resituating relaunched migration systems as emergent entitiesmanifested ingeographic structures

Cited by 16 publications

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Multiple moves and return migration within developing countries: A comparative analysis

Multiple moves and return migration within developing countries: A comparative analysis

Time to Mainstream the Environment into Migration Theory?

Differential Recovery Migration across the Rural–Urban Gradient: Minimal and Short‐Term Population Gains for Rural Disaster‐Affected Gulf Coast Counties

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