Heat Exposure and Youth Migration in Central America and the Caribbean

We employ a triple difference-in-difference approach, using censuses and georeferenced temperature data, to quantify heat effects on internal migration in Central America and the Caribbean. A 1-standard deviation increase in heat would affect the lives of 7,314 and 1,578 unskilled young women and men. The effect is smaller than observed in response to droughts and hurricanes but could increase with climate change. Interestingly, youth facing heat waves are more likely to move to urban centers than when exposed to disasters endemic to the region. Research identifying the implications of these choices and interventions available to minimize distress migration is warranted.

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Heat Exposure and Youth Migration in Central America and the Caribbean

10.1596/29060 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Javier Baez ◽

German Caruso ◽

Valerie Mueller ◽

Chiyu Niu

Keyword(s):

Central America ◽

Heat Exposure ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Youth Migration

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Tropical Atlantic Influence on European Heat Waves

Journal of Climate ◽

10.1175/jcli3506.1 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 18 (15) ◽

pp. 2805-2811 ◽

Cited By ~ 257

Author(s):

Christophe Cassou ◽

Laurent Terray ◽

Adam S. Phillips

Keyword(s):

Atmospheric Circulation ◽

Long Range ◽

Heat Waves ◽

Extreme Weather ◽

Temperature Data ◽

Tropical Atlantic ◽

Caribbean Basin ◽

Climate Anomalies ◽

Warm Summer ◽

The Caribbean

Abstract Diagnostics combining atmospheric reanalysis and station-based temperature data for 1950–2003 indicate that European heat waves can be associated with the occurrence of two specific summertime atmospheric circulation regimes. Evidence is presented that during the record warm summer of 2003, the excitation of these two regimes was significantly favored by the anomalous tropical Atlantic heating related to wetter-than-average conditions in both the Caribbean basin and the Sahel. Given the persistence of tropical Atlantic climate anomalies, their seasonality, and their associated predictability, the suggested tropical–extratropical Atlantic connection is encouraging for the prospects of long-range forecasting of extreme weather in Europe.

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Local Histories/Global Designs

10.23943/princeton/9780691156095.001.0001 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Walter D. Mignolo

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Central America ◽

Postcolonial Studies ◽

The United States ◽

Philosophy Of History ◽

South Central ◽

The Social ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Border Thinking ◽

East West

This book is an extended argument about the “coloniality” of power. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, this book points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. It explores the crucial notion of “colonial difference” in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which the book calls “border thinking.” Further, the book expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling on the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. The book's concept of “border gnosis,” or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding. A new preface discusses this book as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History.

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