title: Do Migrants Degrade Coastal Environments? Migration, Natural Resource Extraction and Poverty in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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 investigates these variables 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.
authors: Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Cassels
authors: Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors: Sara R
authors: SR
authors: Curran
authors: Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
authors: Randall
authors: R
authors: Kramer
keywords: North Sulawesi; coral reefs; fishing; local economies; migrants; migration; modes of incorporation