Migration

The relationship between the environment and migration is most often addressed through two major issues: the ways in which environmental change relates to decisions to move, and the ways in which migrants either leaving or arriving in a particular place affect the environment. Recent literature addressing both of these issues, while building upon long-standing debates on migration and the relationship between population and the environment, now focuses on case-specific understandings of the local social relations that give the environment and natural resources value and meaning in particular places.