Citation
Gray, Clark L. (2010). Gender, Natural Capital, and Migration in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes.
Environment and Planning A, 42(3), 678-696.
Abstract
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.
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a42170Reference Type
Journal Article
Year Published
2010
Journal Title
Environment and Planning A
Author(s)
Gray, Clark L.
ORCiD
Gray, C - 0000-0002-6667-7909
