“Urban Exodus” During COVID-19in Mexico? UsingDigital Data to AnalyzeMedium-Term Pandemic Impacts on Internal Population Movements

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/104745 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/104745 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/104745 archive 353 disk0/00/01/94/47 2024-01-30 11:59:37 2024-01-30 11:59:37 2024-01-30 11:59:37 article show 2 González-Leonardo M. 2359 Cabrera-Arnau C. Neville R. Nasuto A. Rowe F. “Urban Exodus” During COVID-19in Mexico? UsingDigital Data to AnalyzeMedium-Term Pandemic Impacts on Internal Population Movements submitted POPJUS MDM Human mobility, rural-urban hierarchy, COVID-19, Facebookdata, Latin America, Global South Previous workdocumented a decline of internal population movements andan increase in outflowsfrom large cities to less densely populated areas during COVID-19 inGlobal North countries. However, the impact of the pandemic on levels and patterns of human mobilityacross the rural-urban hierarchyin the Global South is yet to be established.Lack of data with temporal and spatialgranularityhas preventedus fromassessing this research gap.Drawing on locationdata ofFacebook users, weanalyse howthe intensityand patternsof long-distancemovements(>100 Km) were affectedduring April 2020-May 2022 acrossdifferent population densitycategoriesin Mexico.Wefind a decline of40% in the total number of long-distancemovements duringApril-December 2020, anda systematic decrease of outflows and inflows across the rural-urban hierarchy. Unlike inthe Global North, outflowsfrom large citiesdid not increase. The largest drop of outflows and inflowsoccurred in large cities, decliningby 50%. Only specific flows increased during COVID-19, as those from large cities to certain towns, and intra-rural movements. The intensity and patterns ofinternal population movementsacross the rural-urban hierarchyhave progressively returned to pre-pandemic levels during 2021 and 2022, as has occurred in Global North countries. However, therecovery has been slower inthe largeMexicancities. 2024-01 submitted doi:10.31219/osf.io/e4au9 3442 public OSF preprrints FALSE “Urban Exodus” During COVID-19 in Mexico? Using Digital Data to Analyze Medium-Term Pandemic Impacts on Internal Population Movements no info:eu-repo/semantics/article