| Autor: |
Gray, Clark L.1 clark.gray@duke.edu |
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| Zdroj: |
Environment & Planning A. Mar2010, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p678-696. 19p. 2 Charts, 2 Graphs. |
| Abstrakt: |
This paper investigates the roles of gender and natural capital (defined as land and associated environmental services) in out-migration from a rural study area in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. Drawing on original household survey data, I construct and compare multivariate event history models of individual-level, household-level, and community-level influences on the migration of men and women. The results undermine common assumptions that landlessness and environmental degradation universally contribute to out-migration. Instead, men access land resources to facilitate international migration and women are less likely to depart from environmentally marginal communities relative to other areas. These results reflect a significantly gendered migration system in which natural capital plays an important but unexpected role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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GreenFILE |
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