Community migration in Alaska's north: the places people stay and the places they leave

摘要: Abstract Arctic Alaska is a vast sparsely settled region encompassing Alaska's three most northern census areas. The has been of net out-migration for the past decades. Despite this regional migration pattern, many region's villages have experienced in-migration. paper looks at village patterns in two periods. Census micro data was used to describe flows migrants into and out between periods, from 1985 1990 1995 2000. pattern varied over time with switching Preliminary explanations these differences are investigated. Examining characteristics community rates provides some support idea that across communities may reflect variation economic growth, housing supply, social benefits, demographic character villages.