The search for safety: The effects of conflict, poverty and ecological influences on migration in the developing world

Raleigh, Clionadh

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.08.008

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“…Indeed, the importance given to extended family in the Philippines, and not the nuclear family, has some major implications on the migration patterns. As in many other places, social networks strongly influence the direction of movement (De Jong et al 1996;Massey 1990;Raleigh 2011), but here we have demonstrated this for populations with different cultural background (both lumads and dumagats). Finally, the progressive movement of both locals and migrants toward more upstream marginal agricultural lands, in response to social and environmental changes, is not commonly found in the literature-but is a pattern that emerged in our Philippines study setting.…”

Section: Past Migratory Experiencessupporting

confidence: 66%

Spatio-temporal migration patterns to and from an upland village of Mindanao, Philippines

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Movement of groups of people is closely linked to environmental, agricultural and cultural change. Gaining an understanding of these changes in a local context is a vital prelude to the construction of a viable predictive model. We carried out a study in the Philippines to better understand the association between migration and these types of changes at a village scale and to build a picture of how the associations changed in time and space. The study area was located in the uplands of Mindanao. Migration to the village began in the late 1970s. As of 2010, the population is made up of indigenous people (*57 %), people who migrated from elsewhere in the Philippines (*29 %), and descendants of indigenous/non indigenous parents (*14 %). Face-to-face interviews in the village and in the places of origin/destination were used to collect qualitative information on the migrations made by the current and past village inhabitants. The main results relate to the reasons for migration, the socioenvironmental processes that induced the decision to move and the description and explanation of more recent moves. The local findings are discussed in the context of existing published models of migration in frontier areas.

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Section: Past Migratory Experiencessupporting

confidence: 66%

Spatio-temporal migration patterns to and from an upland village of Mindanao, Philippines

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“…Technology, knowledge, skills, social capital, and remittances may flow between migrants and original communities, resulting in benefits for both groups by building social resilience, increasing flexibility and diversity, and even fostering innovation (Scheffran et al, 2012;Adger, 1999). Although it is important to consider the positive role migrants can play on an original community, high levels of migration can have negative repercussions by overwhelming the destination area's capabilities and by weakening the original community's social structure, especially considering that most migrants in least developed countries tend to be younger and with greater resources (Lilleør & Van den Broeck, 2011;Black et al, 2011;Raleigh, 2011).…”

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Vulnerability and adaptive capacity of community food systems in the Peruvian Amazon: a case study from Panaillo

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AcknowledgementsThe community members of Panaillo taught me so much that extends far beyond this research and have inspired me to work harder and to be better. I deeply appreciate their friendship, their faith, and their endless supply of paranta shui. The quality, scope and meaning of this research are a direct result of their hard work. I am extremely grateful to my supervisor, Dr. James Ford, for serving as an invaluable mentor to me for several years. He introduced me to the concepts and politics surrounding climate change adaptation and has inspired me to continue working in this field for many years to come. He taught me to think critically about my own work and the work of others and I admire his commitment to community engagement and to resolving these 'wicked' problems. Through his guidance and example, I have learned how to make meaningful impacts in climate change adaptation research and I truly appreciate the freedom he has given me in carrying out this research.

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“…Sociologists highlight migrant networks and a "culture of migration" (Kandel and Massey 2002;Massey 1990a), while political scientists primarily stress political instability and violence as driving migration (Raleigh 2011;Salehyan and Gleditsch 2006).…”

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The role of environmental perceptions in migration decision-making: evidence from both migrants and non-migrants in five developing countries

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Environmental factors are likely to affect human mobility in the form of migration, but the empirical evidence remains to be inconclusive. This research seeks to contribute shedding more light on this ambiguity: we examine whether and how environmental change leads to internal (i.e., domestic) migration at the individual level. It is argued that individual perceptions of different types of environmental change (sudden vs. gradual events) determine migration decisions in diverse ways. Empirically, the corresponding arguments are analyzed with new survey data, which have been collected in five developing countries and include both individuals who migrated and those who decided to stay. The results suggest that individual perceptions of long-term (gradual) environmental events, such as droughts, lower the likelihood of internal migration. However, there is some evidence that sudden-onset events, such as floods, increase the chances to move. These findings substantially improve our understanding of which type of environmental factors make individuals leave their homes, and they suggest that a more differentiated perspective on the issue of environmental migration based on adaptation is needed.

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The search for safety: The effects of conflict, poverty and ecological influences on migration in the developing world

Cited by 79 publications

References 50 publications

Spatio-temporal migration patterns to and from an upland village of Mindanao, Philippines

Spatio-temporal migration patterns to and from an upland village of Mindanao, Philippines

Vulnerability and adaptive capacity of community food systems in the Peruvian Amazon: a case study from Panaillo

The role of environmental perceptions in migration decision-making: evidence from both migrants and non-migrants in five developing countries

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