These processes can be interpreted as impacts on vulnerable peoples, but also as adaptation strategies to manage risks and reduce exposure when people continue with their lives, temporarily or permanently, in a different but stable situationor when family members send remittances to those that remain in the affected areas . The remittances create opportunities for adaptive capacity building because they reduce some vulnerabilities in the form of infrastructures, agricultural supplies, food, education or health, as in northern CA . Anyhow, migration as adaptation is not available to everyone , and the idea has also been contested because it may not help to overcome structural problems or point to in situ options . The causal processes are complex. Surveys of migrants usually find that the main reported reason for migration is to find a job or to increase household income , but the
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