New research shows that socio-economic factors play a larger role in migration than climate.
While public discussions often focus on climate change driving people to emigrate, new research published inshows that net-migration patterns around the world are actually more strongly linked with socio-economic factors. The study also provides a new, high-resolution dataset of net-migration over the past two decades to inform policy-making and fuel further research.
The team combined birth and death rates with overall population growth to estimate net migration. The role of socio-economics and climate were incorporated through the Human Development Index and the aridity index. The researchers found high levels of emigration in regions that were on the middle of the scale in both HDI and aridity, such as areas in Central America, northeast Brazil, Central Africa and southeast Asia. 'It's not the poorest of the poor who are fleeing environmental disasters or environmental changes. Migration is an adaptation method used by people who have the capacity to move,' says Niva.
Unexpected patterns also showed up in urban-rural migration. 'There's a very common belief that urban areas are pulling the people from the rural areas, but that wasn't the case everywhere. For example, there are a lot of places for example in Europe where the opposite is true,' says Kummu.
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