Who will leave? Oil, migration, and Scottish island youth
Seyfrit, C.L.; Hamilton, L.C.
Society and Natural Resources 5(3): 263-276
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0894-1920 PMID: 12344921 DOI: 10.1080/08941929209380791Document Number: 326467
"Using survey data from high school students of Scotland's Shetland and Orkney Islands (affected by North Sea oil development), we explore relations between intentions to migrate and individual background, aspirations, and attitudes. Attitudes toward oil development do not predict migration intentions. Instead, migration intentions are predicted by essentially the same variables identified in other studies, in areas where energy development was not occurring. Thus, we found no evidence that oil development fundamentally changed young people's thoughts about leaving."