Post-Disaster Migrations and Returns in Sicily: The 1908 Messina Earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake

Parrinello, Giacomo

doi:10.3197/ge.2012.050902

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“…Debates continue regarding the toll of the earthquake in lives and damage, as well as on the magnitude of internal population movements in its wake (e.g., Caminiti 2009;Mortara 1913;Parrinello 2012;Restifo 1995). One contribution of our analysis is to shed some light on these debates by lending quantitative support to the revisionist view, arguing that death tolls and internal population movements in the aftermath of the shock have been overstated.…”

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International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

Spitzer¹,

Tortorici²,

Zimran³

2020

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International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

Spitzer¹,

Tortorici²,

Zimran³

2020

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“…This paper offers peaceful, sensible ways in which disorganised clirefuge seeking could be turned into planned climigration by learning from history. Special Issue 9 (2012) of Global Environment studied environmental change and migration in history, covering a wide spectrum of topics from Sicily, Western Rajasthan, Manila, Lima, the Andes, Western United States and Minnesota (Brown, 2012;Culver, 2012;Parrinello, 2012;Singh, 2012;Soll, 2012;Zoomers, 2012). Another approach to the subject is to investigate other historical migratory movements and apply their teachings to plan climigration.…”

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Climigration: How to Plan Climate Migration by Learning from History?

Ketola¹

2015

Global Environment

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Climate change migration, climigration, has occurred through the ages, but with anthropogenic climate change it is predicted to swell. A Special Issue of this journal has earlier discussed environmental change related migration in history. This paper takes a complementary approach by studying other migratory movements in history and applying their lessons to plan climigration. Examples of six historically documented phenomena are investigated: mass migration, refuge seeking, evacuation, exile, slave trade and colonialism. These are explored in relation to the most inhabitable climigration destinations: the northern parts of the United States, Canada, the Nordic countries, Northern European Russia and Siberia. The purpose of this research is to help governments and global organisations to turn desperate, chaotic clirefuge-seeking into orderly, purposeful climigration, so that the migrants maintain their cultural identities, and, with the local inhabitants of the destination areas, build economically, socially, culturally and environmentally sustainable communities.

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“…For a modern comparison, the post-destruction rebuilding efforts after the 1908 earthquake in Messina (Sicily), which killed about half of the city’s pre-earthquake population (about 150,000), also offered attractive new opportunities: state-funded jobs, cheap land, and even looting the ruins. As a result, Messina’s population swelled to 118% of its pre-earthquake size in 13 years (Restifo 1995 ; Parrinello 2012 ). Similar trends took place in late antique Antioch as people from its hinterland and other cities in the region resettled in it and benefited from parallel economic opportunities.…”

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The Social Burden of Resilience: A Historical Perspective

2018

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We examine the social burden associated with resilience to environmental shocks in pre-modern societies. We argue that analyses of state-level interventions to mitigate the consequences of catastrophic events tend to isolate these measures from their larger social contexts and thereby overlook the uneven distribution of their burden across different groups. We use three cases of pre-modern societies in the northeastern Mediterranean - the sixth century Roman Empire, the tenth century Byzantine Empire, and the sixteenth century Ottoman Empire. We demonstrate how the adaptive processes that reinforced resilience at the state level incurred different burdens for those at lower levels of the social hierarchy. We found that some groups sustained losses while others gained unexpected benefits in the context of temporary systemic instability. We also found that although elites enjoyed enhanced buffers against the adverse effects in comparison with non-elites, this did not consistently guarantee them a better outcome. We conclude that the differentiated burden of resilience could in some cases entrench existing political or economic configurations, and in other cases, overturn them. Our case studies indirectly address the pressing issue of environmental justice.

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Post-Disaster Migrations and Returns in Sicily: The 1908 Messina Earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake

Cited by 10 publications

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International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

Climigration: How to Plan Climate Migration by Learning from History?

The Social Burden of Resilience: A Historical Perspective

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