Do Mexicans flee from violence? The effects of drug-related violence on migration decisions in Mexico

Atuesta, Laura H.; Paredes, Dusan

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2015.1079122

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“…As mentioned above, in the specific case of self-defense organisations in Mexico, we have to keep in mind that recent emigration patterns have been partly driven by the security situation (Ríos 2014;Atuesta and Paredes 2015;Hiskey, Montalvo, and Orcés 2014). But exit does not necessarily entail the loss of voice.…”

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Family remittances and vigilantism in Mexico

Ley

Ibarra-Olivo

Meseguer

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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We explore the role of workers' remittances in supporting vigilante organisations that emerged in reaction to rising criminal violence in Mexico. Research on remittances posits both a positive and a negative effect on collective action from the reception of remittances. On one hand, remittances sent by relatives abroad provide extra resources for political action at home. On the other hand, the reception of remittances makes recipients less prone to protesting, through a reduction in grievances. As a result, remittances can be associated with both an increase and a decrease of collective political activity. In this paper, we claim that both effects can co-exist and that the predominance of one mechanism or the other depends on the degree of penetration of remittances at the municipal level. Using data on the existence of vigilante organisations, we find that in most remittance-receiving municipalities, through a resource effect, remittance inflows increase the probability of observing self-defense organisations, but this probability declines at high rates of remittance penetration at the local level. Nonetheless, we observe an activation effect in a majority of remittance receiving municipalities. The paper contributes both to our understanding of international social networks as determinants of civilian action and to the research agenda on how workers' remittances shape political behaviour in home countries.

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Section: Family Remittances and Collective Actionmentioning

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Family remittances and vigilantism in Mexico

Ley

Ibarra-Olivo

Meseguer

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Shellman and Stewart (2007) find a statistically significant relationship between outbreaks of civil conflict in Haiti and U.S. interdictions of unauthorized Haitian migrants. And there is some evidence that U.S. counties closer to more violent Mexican municipalities received more Mexican migrants during a large homicide wave in Mexico (Arceo-Gómez 2013), but Mexicans appear to respond to violence more through domestic migration than international migration (Martinez 2014;Atuesta and Paredes 2016). Causal attribution in this literature is complicated by the fact that confounding determinants of migration may be varying across time in correlation with national-level violence.…”

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Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions

Clemens

2021

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…The surge in violence has turned otherwise prosperous and productive parts of Mexico into targets for criminal gangs, with negative repercussions for the Mexican economy (Enamorado et al 2014;Gutiérrez-Romero and Oviedo 2017;Ríos Contreras 2008, Robles et al 2012. Violence has been associated with the displacement of thousands of Mexican families to other regions in the country (Atuesta and Paredes 2016;IDMC 2012;Martínez 2017). There is even evidence of a number of Mexicans immigrating to the United States due to growing insecurity (Arceo-Gómez 2013; Bada and Feldmann 2019;Ríos Contreras 2014).…”

Section: Criminal Violence In Mexicomentioning

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The 3×1 Programme and criminal violence in Mexico

García

2019

Global Networks

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Are levels of criminal violence lower where emigrants collaborate with the state authorities in the funding and provision of public goods and services? In this article, I examine the causal effect on violence levels in the municipalities participating in Mexico's Three‐for‐One (3×1) Programme for Migrants. Using municipal‐level data for the period between 2001 and 2010, the analysis shows that the implementation of this programme led to an increase in violence in the municipalities in question, and that this effect is driven by the ‘war on drugs’ initiated by the Mexican government in 2006. Because cartels splinter when kingpins are captured, they look for sources of revenue other than drug smuggling. The budgetary gains obtained via the 3×1 Programme inadvertently increased the returns of extortion and directed the attention of organized criminals to the participant municipalities. The evidence highlights some of the unintended effects that the leveraging of emigrants' money may have in home countries where governments make the so‐called ‘kingpin strategy’ a centrepiece of their security strategy.

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Do Mexicans flee from violence? The effects of drug-related violence on migration decisions in Mexico

Cited by 18 publications

References 18 publications

Family remittances and vigilantism in Mexico

Family remittances and vigilantism in Mexico

Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions

The 3×1 Programme and criminal violence in Mexico

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