... "common forms of environmental degradation may cause both deliberate migration and acute displacement" (Surkhe, 1994). Some, like British demographer Anthony Richmond, conceptualized a continuum between "proactive migrants seeking to maximize net advantage, and the reactive behavior of those whose degrees of freedom are severely constrained" (Richmond,1993). A working definition of "environmental refugees" for this paper will focus on those for whom ... ...

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... be unaware to what extent the identity that they are interacting with is manufactured. Moreover, any individual could be, for example, a male heterosexual in real life but may interact in a net community as a single female, a teenage boy in another, or even a homosexual male in another (Lewis 2002). Masquerading with a fabricated identity can give individuals the ability to discard, in cyberspace at ... ...

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