Mexico-U.S. migration flow is the largest sustained movement of people between any two nations. Existing work focuses on income differentials between the two countries as the main reason underlying migration. Our work shows climate change, bilateral trade, and border enforcement policies to be critical – and underappreciated – factors in guiding people’s movements.

Presenters:
Filiz Garip, Professor of Sociology
Nancy Chau, Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Register: https://cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XTFbNwrKT-ez3yZLjntZTg

This lecture includes presentations on the following projects:
- “On the Triggers of Hazardous Border Crossings: Evidence from the US-Mexican Border,” presented by Nancy Chau (paper coauthored with Filiz Garip and Ariel Ortiz-Bobea)
- “Human adaptation alleviates the impact of climate change on migration,” presented by Filiz Garip (paper coauthored with Julia Zhu, Nancy Chau, and Amanda Rodewald)

Part of the series "Migrations: A Global, Interdisciplinary, Multi-Species Examination"