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Do migrants degrade coastal environments? Migration, natural resource extraction and poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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  • Susan Cassels

    (Princeton University)

  • Sara R. Curran

    (Princeton University)

  • Randall Kramer

    (Duke University)

Abstract

Recent literature on migration and the environment has identified key mediating variables such as how migrants extract resources from the environment for their livelihoods, the rate and efficiency of extraction, and the social and economic context within which their extraction occurs. This paper tests these theories in a new ecological setting using data from coastal fishing villages in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. We do not find as many differences between migrant and non-migrant families regarding destructive fishing behavior, technology and investment as might have been expected from earlier theories. Instead, the context and timing of migrant assimilation seems to be more important in explaining apparent associations of migration and environmental impacts than simply migrants themselves. This finding fits well with recent literature in the field of international migration and immigrant incorporation.

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  • Susan Cassels & Sara R. Curran & Randall Kramer, 2003. "Do migrants degrade coastal environments? Migration, natural resource extraction and poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesia," Working Papers 299, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Office of Population Research..
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    Indonesia;

    JEL classification:

    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
    • Q22 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Fishery

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