Debye-H\"{u}ckel Theory for Refugees' Migration
Physics and Society
2017-11-15 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
In this Letter we follow the short-ranged Syrian refugees' migration to Lebanon as documented by the UNHCR. We propose a model inspired by the Debye-H\"{u}ckel theory and show that it properly predicts the refugees' mobility while the gravity model fails. We claim that the interaction between origin cities attenuates and/or extenuates the flux to destinations, and consequently, in analogy with the effective charges of interacting particles in a plasma, these source cities are characterized by effective populations determined by their pairwise remoteness/closeness and defined by areas of control between the fighting parties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.05052,
title = {Debye-H\"{u}ckel Theory for Refugees' Migration},
author = {Sara Najem},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05052},
year = {2017}
}