Abstract ID: 3.12169 | Accepted as Talk | Talk | TBA | TBA

Like migration, non-migration can be an adaptive strategy in the face of disaster risks, yet it has received modest attention in migration research. Based on theory of planned behavior (TPB), five indicators of three dimensions — behavioral attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control — are extracted as antecedent conditions for generating high degree of non-migration intention. Using questionnaire survey data of 155 farmers in former Caopo Township in Sichuan Province of Southwestern China, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is conducted to investigate the determinants for farmers’ intention for non-migration. The results show that household income, agricultural dependence, risk perception, policy satisfaction and subjective norms cannot individually constitute the necessary conditions for non-migration intention; configurational sufficiency analysis indicates that ‘risk unawareness’, ‘livelihood constraint’ and ‘economic better-off’ are three main paths leading to non-migration intention. As these findings inform, measures should be taken targeting farmers with both migration and non-migration intentions, seeking to achieve successful relocation and better reduction of disaster risk in rural communities.