Migration

Individuals and families move all over the world in search of safety and opportunity. Balancing the interests of migrants with potential host communities requires we understand the numbers and needs of populations that might move in response to major policy decisions. In particular, we focus on the interactions between migration and both environmental change as well as violence.

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Social and economic impacts of climate

T.A. Carleton & S.M. Hsiang, Science (2016)

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Coverage: Bloomberg, Xinhua, ClimateWire, NPR, Quartz, Chile Sustentable, Vvox, Guinee28, Afrique Expansion, East Online,

Potentially Extreme Population Displacement and Concentration in the Tropics Under Non-Extreme Warming

S.M. Hsiang & A.H. Sobel, Scientific Reports (2016)

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Coverage: Washington Post, Scientific American, Xinhua, Radio Santiago, GreenReport.it, TeInteresa.es, América Economíca, SinEmbargo.mx, Piac és Profit

Nonlinear permanent migration response to climatic variations but minimal response to disasters

Bohra-Mishra, P, M Oppenheimer, SM Hsiang, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)

Coverage: Science, National Geographic, Scientific American, NPR

Current projects

Dynamics of global refugee flows
Climate change and global international migration
Global analysis of domestic migration patterns