NDLI: Recovery Migration After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Spatial Concentration and Intensification in the Migration System

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Author	Curtis, Katherine J. Fussell, Elizabeth DeWaard, Jack
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Changes in the human migration systems of the Gulf of Mexico coastline counties affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita provide an example of how climate change may affect coastal populations. Crude climate change models predict a mass migration of “climate refugees,” but an emerging literature on environmental migration suggests that most migration will be short-distance and short-duration within existing migration systems, with implications for the population recovery of disaster-stricken places. In this research, we derive a series of hypotheses on recovery migration predicting how the migration system of hurricane-affected coastline counties in the Gulf of Mexico was likely to have changed between the pre-disaster and the recovery periods. We test these hypotheses using data from the Internal Revenue Service on annual county-level migration flows, comparing the recovery period migration system (2007–2009) with the pre-disaster period (1999–2004). By observing county-to-county ties and flows, we find that recovery migration was strong: the migration system of the disaster-affected coastline counties became more spatially concentrated, while flows within it intensified and became more urbanized. Our analysis demonstrates how migration systems are likely to be affected by the more intense and frequent storms anticipated by climate change scenarios, with implications for the population recovery of disaster-affected places.
Starting Page	1269
Ending Page	1293
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00703370
Journal	Demography
Volume Number	52
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15337790
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-06-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Recovery migration Migration system Environment Disasters Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Demography Sociology Population Economics Medicine/Public Health Geography (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography

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