Gender, Natural Capital, and Migration in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

Filed under: Population Movement, Diversity, Inequality

Gray, Clark L. (2010). Gender, Natural Capital, and Migration in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. Environment and Planning A, 42(3), 678-96.

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Gray, Clark L.

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2010

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Environment and Planning A

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42

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3

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678-96

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10.1068/a42170

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5137

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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.

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Population Movement, Diversity, Inequality

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Gray, Clark L. (2010). Gender, Natural Capital, and Migration in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. Environment and Planning A, 42(3), 678-96.