Economic or Environmental Migration? The Push Factors in Niger
Economic or Environmental Migration? The Push Factors in Niger
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00644.x
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发表时间：
2011-06-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Afifi, Tamer
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作者：
Afifi, Tamer
本文确定了尼日尔的主要环境问题，并探讨了这些问题对国家和国际一级移徙的影响。它主要关注干旱、土壤退化、乍得湖萎缩、尼日尔河问题、森林砍伐和沙尘入侵等可能影响尼日尔人民移民决定的重要推动因素。该文件探讨了他们的移徙决定是受到纯粹经济问题还是环境问题的影响，并得出结论认为，经济因素是环境损害影响移徙的机制，因此引入了“环境引起的经济移徙”一词。
This paper identifies the main environmental problems in Niger and detects their impact on migration at the national and international level. It mainly focuses on droughts, soil degradation, the shrinking of Lake Chad, the Niger River problems, deforestation, and sand intrusion, as important push factors that might influence the migration decision of the people of Niger. The paper addresses the question of whether their decision to migrate is influenced by purely economic or environmental problems and concludes that the economic factor represents the mechanism through which the environmental damage influences migration, introducing hereby the term "environmentally induced economic migration".