Replication Data for: Ebb and Flow: The Prospects and Constraints of Climate Migrants

What is the effect of environmental hazards on individual migration decisions when climate change-related mobility is permitted by a foreign state? We leverage a full immersion, qualitative case study and an original, large-scale survey of Chuukese citizens in the Federated States of Micronesia, a unique setting highly vulnerable to climate change and with an exceptional treaty granting FSM citizens access to the United States as non-immigrants without visas. We find that environmental hazards do not play a direct role in Chuukese decisions to leave their islands, despite the pervasive awareness of these hazards. Our findings instead suggest that environmental risks contextualize migration decisions, but do not drive them. Other factors like work, health, and family obligations take precedent.