Abstract
This research explores the consequences of out-migration for sending communities in rural Alaska. In particular, it describes the relationship between female out-migration and community viability, by comparing the age–sex structures of Alaska Native villages that are growing with villages in decline. The paper discusses out-migration and its connection to school closure. It provides a detailed description of out-migration from villages in northern Alaska, using data from several household surveys to better understand migrants. Villages that are decreasing in size show a loss of adult women over time. Many leave and few return or replaced by in-migrants. Also notable is the loss of children from villages in decline. In some very small places the departure of women and children leads to school closure and eventually the village disappears.
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