Reports

Morse, C. 2024. Why Did Migrants Chose Vermont in 2020-2023? Climate, Rural Landscapes, and Small Communities. morse_vt_migration_2020-23.pdf

Morse, C. 2017. Vermont Returnees and their Global Networks. Vermont Roots Migration Project, Technical Report 2. morse_2017__vermontreturnees_globalconnections.pdf

Morse, C. and W. Geller. 2014. Vermont Roots Migration Project: Summary of Initial Findings. Vermont Roots Migration Project, Technical Report 1. Center for Research on Vermont, University of Vermont. vt_roots_technical_crv.pdf

Academic Publications

Husa, A., 2023. Home in the Hills: Rural Stayers in the Missouri Ozarks and Nebraska Sandhills.  Rural Society. 32(1), pp.30-44.10.1080/10371656.2023.2206733

Husa, A., 2022. Gender and Residential Decision-making in the Rural Great Plains.  Great Plains Research. 32(1), pp.21-28. 10.1353/gpr.2022.0001.

Husa A., and C. Morse. 2020. Rurality as a Key Factor for Place Attachment in the Great Plains. Geographical Review.  10.1080/00167428.2020.1786384.

Morse, C. and J. Mudgett. 2018. Happy to be Home: Place Attachment, Family Ties, and Mobility of Contented Rural Stayers. The Professional Geographer, 70 (2), 261-269.10.1080/00330124.2017.1365309.

Morse, C. 2017. The Emotional Geographies of Global Return Migration to Vermont. Emotion, Space and Society 25: 14-21.

Morse, C. and J. Mudgett. 2017. Longing for Landscape: Homesickness and Place Attachment Among Rural Out-Migrants in the 19th and 21st Centuries. Journal of Rural Studies 50: 95-103.
 
Morse, C. 2015. The Risks and Rewards of Using Social Media in Rural Migration Research: Findings from the Vermont Roots Project. The Northeastern Geographer, 7: 72-88.

​Media Stories and Presentations

"Who are the New Vermonters?" Research 
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Hurdle, Jon. As Climate Fears Mount, Some in U.S. Are Deciding to Relocate. YaleEnvironment360. March 24, 2022.  https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-climate-fears-mount-some-in-u.s.-are-deciding-to-relocate
 
Arntsen, Erlend Ofte. US climate refugees: Done with California. Vergens Gang (VG- Norwegian national paper). March 29, 2022.   https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/dn0z8A/usas-klimaflyktninger-ferdige-med-california
 
McCallum, Kevin. Fave Little State: Climate Migrants From Around America Are Seeking Refuge in Vermont. Seven Days. Jan 12-18, 2022. https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/IssueArchives?issue=34646955

​Valley News article https://www.vnews.com/Out---About-UVM-geographer-launches-project-about-new-Vermonters-41416421

New migration to America's rural areas, Daily Yonder. July 12, 2021.


Why Do Vermonters Stay, Leave, and Return to Vermont? 

Short Video
Are People Leaving Vermont? Center for Research on Vermont. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b948-ECkYY.

Radio Programs
Is Vermont Really Losing Young People? Brave Little State. Vermont Public Radio. April 2018. https://www.vpr.org/post/vermont-really-losing-young-people.

 Who Gets to Call Themselves a Vermonter? Vermont Edition, Vermont Public Radio. November 28, 2017. http://digital.vpr.net/post/who-gets-call-themselves-vermonter#stream/0.

Vermont Roots Migration Survey: The Stayers, the Leavers, and The Returnees. Vermont Edition. Vermont Public Radio. May 13. Colchester, Vermont.  http://digital.vpr.net/post/vermont-roots-migration-survey-stayers-leavers-and-returnees-1#stream/0.

Why We Stay and Why We Go.  Vermont Edition, Vermont Public Radio. April, 2014.  http://digital.vpr.net/post/why-we-stay-vermont-and-why-we-dont.

Filmed Lecture
Staying, Leaving and Returning to Vermont, Keynote Lecture, Center for Research on Vermont Annual Meeting, University of Vermont. May 6. 2015. Burlington, Vermont. http://www.retn.org/show/2015-center-research-vermont-annual-meeting