Social Integration, Disaster, And Migration

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1 Research Proposal Social Integration, Disaster, and Migration: A study of how social integration reduces migration intent following a natural disaster Socy 5031 Research Design 2 Table of Contents I. Research Problem II. Purpose Statement III. Literature Review A. Initial Findings 1. Migration Theory and the experience of natural disaster in relation to migration 2. Community Integration Theory and its relation to migration intentions 3. Community integration related to the experience of natural disasters and migration IV. Hypothesis V. Research Methods A. Quantitative Survey Questionnaires 1. Key Variables a. Migration Intentions b. Social Integration B. Qualitative Interviews C. Sampling Techiniques 1. Survey Sample 2. Interview Sample VI. Analysis of Data VII. Benefits of Proposed Research Project VIII. Project Time Line 3 Problem Natural disasters impact communities around the world. Whether they are in the form of flooding, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or other, they will affect community integration and potentially an individual or family’s desire to migrate. While in general migration literature has focused theoretically and empirically on questions related to why individuals move (or the leaving process) (Guest and Stamm 1993), the question of why do some persons stay has had little empirical research. Perhaps this question has not been addressed because it seems quite self-explanatory; people stay because they have chosen to live in a certain community in the first place. However, with the introduction of a disaster into the picture of community living, this question becomes more salient to multiple areas of research. Purpose Statement The purpose of this research is to study the effects of social integration on migration intentions with the event of a disaster as the intervening variable. This study will
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