Drought as a driver of Mexico-US migration

Guillermo N. Murray-Tortarolo () and Mario Martínez Salgado
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Guillermo N. Murray-Tortarolo: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM
Mario Martínez Salgado: Unidad de Investigaciones sobre Representaciones Culturales y Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM

Climatic Change, 2021, vol. 164, issue 3, No 24, 11 pages

Abstract: Abstract Emigration from Mexico to the USA represents one of the largest current socioeconomic phenomena in the world. Climate, and particularly drought, has been identified as a key driver of peak migratory flows between the two nations. However, current existing studies are constrained by a reduced spatial scale (e.g., a single community or municipality) or a short time-window (e.g.

Keywords: International migration; Climate migrants; Dry years; Rainfed agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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