Outmigration and gender balance in Greenland

t. Research on Alaska has established a pattern of disproportionate outmigration by young adult females from Native villages and towns. Consequently, smaller villages tend to have more young adult Native men than women; the reverse holds true in Alaskan cities. Such migration reflects gender differe...

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Main Authors: Hamilton, Lawrence C., Rasmussen, Rasmus Ole, Flanders, Nicholas E., Seyfrit, Carole L.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 1996
Subjects:
Men
Women
Age groups
Fishery economics
Communities
Villages
Tuberculosis
Towns
Mortality
Feminist anthropology
Sociology
Greenland
Alaska
Online Access:https://scholars.unh.edu/soc_facpub/425
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40316397
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Summary:t. Research on Alaska has established a pattern of disproportionate outmigration by young adult females from Native villages and towns. Consequently, smaller villages tend to have more young adult Native men than women; the reverse holds true in Alaskan cities. Such migration reflects gender differences in opportunities and also in perceptions regarding the relative attractions of life in small and larger communities. For this article, we replicate parts of the Alaskan research using demographic data on Greenland. A broadly similar pattern of female outmigration emerges, of equal or greater scale. We also find differences in the details, however, corresponding to unique aspects of Greenland's communities, policies, and recent hi

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