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ABSTRACT
This article attempts to identify the determinants of migration based on a survey of 398 households, and binary and multinomial logistic regression analyses. The results show that households’ migration decisions increase with the size of adult labor and access to migration networks, but decrease with an increase in the size of land and livestock, and access to irrigation water and financial transfers. However, the effects of the determinants vary among types of migrant households implying that migration is not a homogeneous activity and that migration studies need to consider the types of migration disaggregated analyses to better inform policy formulation.
Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge the University of Gondar, Association of African Universities, Addis Ababa University and ‘Building Climate Resilience in the Blue Nile Basin’ project at Addis Ababa University for supporting the research project. We are also grateful to Mesfin Desiye, Ebrahim Essa and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments that helped us to improve the article.
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Notes
1. Quite notably, however, SLA does not clearly define poverty since poverty tends to be context specific (DFID, Citation1999). In addition, whether poor tends to migrate depends on context making it difficult to establish a clear relationship between poverty and migration (McDowell & de Haan, Citation1997). It is also worth mentioning that SLA fails to handle livelihoods that involve place relations (e.g., relations between migrants’ place of origin and destination) mediated by migration (King, Citation2011). Thus, although the livelihoods of migrant sending households are integrated to environmental, institutional and socio-economic contexts far away from the location of the households through migration, the conventional livelihood approaches fail to consider this fact.
2. Kebele is the lowest administrative unit next to district in Ethiopia.
3. Dega, Woina dega, Kola and Wurich agro-ecological zones areas that lie between 2300–3200, 1500–2300, 500–1500, and 3200–3700 mean above sea level (m.a.s.l), respectively (Hurni, Citation1998).
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Linger Ayele
Linger Ayele is assistant professor of Geography, Environment and Development at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. His research interest is migration, globalization, environmental change, and translocal development and vulnerability.
Terefe Degefa
Terefe Degefa is associate professor of Population Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. His research focus is population and development particularly youth and demographic dividend, migration, aging and social security systems, and monitoring and evaluation of population programs.