Congolese Migration in Times of Political and Economic Crisis

Schoumaker, Bruno; Flahaux, Marie‐Laurence; Mangalu, José

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69569-3_7

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“…The authors then match those years with periods of economic and political hardship. Massey and Capoferro (2006) look at Peru's structural adjustment period in the 1980s and 1990s, while Schoumaker et al (2010) focus on several political/macroeconomic crises in DR Congo over the 1975-2007 period. In both cases, the authors argue that economic hardship increased migration.…”

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The impact of economic hardships on the intent to migrate: Micro‐level evidence from Venezuela

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Bodanac²,

Palermo³

2022

World Economy

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We examine the impact of various hardships on individual's consideration of migration as a coping mechanism. Previous studies fail to identify the microeconomic drivers of migration during crises, lumping all the potential consequences of a crisis into singular categories. We argue that migration is one of several coping strategies available to individuals and present an empirical model that motivates this proposition. Our approach also suggests that unobserved factors, such as ability, determine both returns to migration as well as the availability of domestic (non‐migration) coping strategies, which curbs migration. We use new survey data covering over 1000 individuals in three large Venezuelan cities. This nation is undergoing a crisis caused by unprecedented levels of hyperinflation, which resulted in the worse migration crisis in Latin American history. We focus on hardships that characterise the Venezuelan situation: food insecurity; scarcity of health products/services; crime; and diminished purchasing power. We marry this information to data on stated preferences over migration. We recognise that individuals may desire to migrate temporarily or permanently and model those choices separately and subsequently treat them as competing options. Our preferred results suggest that falling victim to crime and poor health services motivate migration. We conclude with policy suggestions.

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The impact of economic hardships on the intent to migrate: Micro‐level evidence from Venezuela

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Bodanac²,

Palermo³

2022

World Economy

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“…On voit que les générations 1. (Schoumaker, Flahaux et Mangalu 2018). Dans ce contexte, le retour apparaît comme un phénomène mineur chez les premières générations et comme statistiquement invisibles chez les générations 1.5 et 2.…”

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2022

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Résumé La question du retour des migrants africains installés en Europe est loin d’être neuve avec des travaux qui se focalisent essentiellement sur les aspirations au retour et les processus de sa concrétisation. Aussi pertinent qu’il puisse être, ce focus repose sur une approche limitée, du fait du privilège accordé à la spatialité du phénomène, ce qui trahit une conception normative héritée des politiques d’immigration et de développement. Soumettre notre compréhension du retour à une catégorie qui est indissociable du management des flux migratoires, ne permet pas de penser de manière adéquate le retour comme déplacement spatial, mais aussi politique, culturel, identitaire, devant être resitué dans l’histoire longue de cet espace afro-européen. Ce changement d’échelle temporelle suppose un changement de régime épistémologique que nous souhaitons explorer à partir du point de vue des personnes d’ascendance congolaise et rwandaise nées et, ou socialisées en Belgique.

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“…So let's add information to our hypothetical example and focus on asylum flows from Democratic Republic of the Congo. For these migrants, France is their preferred destination (see Schoumaker et al, 2018). Thus, if France implements stricter policies, some humanitarian migrants who would normally have applied in France are likely to choose an alternative destination country that is already popular among Congolese asylum seekers (e.g., French-speaking countries such as Belgium and Luxembourg), while they are less likely to go to Denmark.…”

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Migrants and Welfare States

2022

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in Copenhagen and as a Researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). ADC's research focuses on migrations flows, labour and educational outcomes of immigrants, neighbourhood dynamics and immigrant integration. ADC is a member of the SocMap Research group at the Department of Sociology and Social Work and is also affiliated with the Center for Displacement, Migration and Integration (MIX) and the Centre for Comparative Welfare States (CCWS).Lanciné E.N. Diop (LEND) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and Society with a main affiliation to the Centre for Comparative Welfare States (CCWS) and the Center for Displacement, Migration and Integration (MIX). LEND's research primarily focuses on the areas of modelling asylum seeker flows, migration flows and their consequences for integration. His current research aims at investigating contact between migrants and natives in the workplace and its consequences for integration (this project is called MN-Contact and is led by Prof. Christian Albrekt Larsen and funded by DFF). Furthermore, LEND is involved in the Horizon2020 project, FUME (Future Migration Scenarios for Europe), which aims at gaining a deeper understanding of migration by revisiting the patterns, motivation and modalities of migration from the perspective both of sending countries and receiving countries. LEND has also previously been employed as a postdoc at the

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Congolese Migration in Times of Political and Economic Crisis

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

The impact of economic hardships on the intent to migrate: Micro‐level evidence from Venezuela

The impact of economic hardships on the intent to migrate: Micro‐level evidence from Venezuela

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