Rapid migrations and dynamics of citizen response
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Author(s)
Sahasranaman, Anand
Jensen, Henrik
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
One of the pressing social concerns of our timeis the need for meaningful responses to migrantsand refugees fleeing conflict and environmentalcatastrophe. We develop a computational model tomodel the influx of migrants into a city, varyingthe rates of entry, and find a non-linear inverserelationship between the fraction of resident populationwhose tolerance levels are breached due to migrantentry and the average time to such tolerancebreach. Essentially, beyond a certain rate of migrantentry, there is a rapid rise in the fraction ofresidents whose tolerances are breached, even as theaverage time to breach decreases. We also modelan analytical approximation of the computationalmodel and find qualitative correspondence in theobserved phenomenology, with caveats. The sharpincrease in the fraction of residents with tolerancebreach could potentially underpin the intensity ofresident responses to bursts of migrant entry intotheir cities. Given this non-linear relationship, it isperhaps essential that responses to refugee situationsare multi-country or global efforts so that sharpspikes of refugee migrations are equitably distributedamong nations, potentially enabling all participatingcountries to avoid impacting resident tolerancesbeyond limits that are socially sustainable.
Date Issued
2019-03-06
Date Acceptance
2019-01-31
Citation
Royal Society Open Science, 2019, 6 (3), pp.1-13
ISSN
2054-5703
Publisher
Royal Society, The
Start Page
1
End Page
13
Journal / Book Title
Royal Society Open Science
Volume
6
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2019 The Authors.
Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
Identifier
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181864
Subjects
Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
migration
refugees
social simulations
computational social science
science of cities
RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION
NEIGHBORHOOD
MODELS
computational social science
migration
refugees
science of cities
social simulations
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-03-06