Do migrants adopt new political attitudes from abroad? Evidence using a multi-sited exit-poll survey during the 2013 Malian elections

Chauvet, Lisa; Gubert, Flore; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine

doi:10.1186/s40878-016-0033-z

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“…For example, Docquier et al (2016) show that in Moldova people with a migration experience in Western Europe tend to vote for more liberal parties than those who migrated to Russia and ex-Soviet republics. Similar ndings have been reached for Mali in West Africa (Chauvet and Mercier 2014;Chauvet et al 2016).…”

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Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?

Platteau¹,

Camilotti²,

Auriol

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to succeed than more indirect approaches when it comes to suppress genderbiased customs. This implies discussing the main possible interaction frameworks leading to antiwomen equilibria, and deriving policy implications from the corresponding games. The theoretical arguments are illustrated by examples drawn from available empirical works, thus providing a reasoned survey of the literature.

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Section: The Role Of Opinion Leaderssupporting

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Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?

Platteau¹,

Camilotti²,

Auriol

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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“…These results suggest that the political climate of the hosting countries matters to the propensity of migrants to transfer new norms. This conclusion is in line with Chauvet et al (2016), who use a multisited exit-poll survey conducted in Mali, France, and Côte d'Ivoire during the 2013 Malian presidential election to provide evidence that not only do migrants have different perceptions of Malian democratic institutions than their non-migrant counterparts, but that the host country's institutional environment matters to the adoption of political norms. Malians interviewed in France had lower levels of trust in Malian political institutions and were more interested in politics than non-migrants and migrants living in Côte d'Ivoire.…”

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Female genital mutilation and migration in Mali: do return migrants transfer social norms?

Mesplé-Somps

2019

J Popul Econ

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“…However, none of these studies observe neither individual migration experience nor individual voting behaviour. 2 In an attempt to address the endogeneity issues arising from the reverse causality between emigration and political opinions, Chauvet et al (2016) adopt a multi-sited exit-poll survey conducted during the 2013 Malian elections in Paris, Abidjan and Bamako together with an instrumental variable strategy. They find that Malians in France have more democratic views than both migrants in Cote d'Ivoire and non-migrants, but they deal with a highly selected sample to start with, namely Malian voters in Mali, France and Cote d'Ivoire, and do not show the transfer of norms to the left-behind families.…”

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International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco

2019

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This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, this paper explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families. Once controlling for the double selection into emigration and return migration, the findings suggest that having a returnee in the household increases the demand for political and social change. This result is driven by returnees mostly from Western European countries, who were exposed to more democratic norms in the destination. However, we find a negative impact of having a current migrant on the willingness of the left-behind households to change. This result is driven by migrants to non-Western countries, where the quality of political and social institutions is lower. Our results are robust to also controlling for destination selectivity.

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Do migrants adopt new political attitudes from abroad? Evidence using a multi-sited exit-poll survey during the 2013 Malian elections

Cited by 29 publications

References 32 publications

Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?

Eradicating women-hurting customs: What role for social engineering?

Female genital mutilation and migration in Mali: do return migrants transfer social norms?

International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco

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