“…3 The strand on subjective well-being and the decision to migrate is part of a broader literature on happiness and migration (see Simpson (2013) and International Organisation for Migration (2013) for an overview). Other directions in this literature have looked at whether migration experience makes people happier (Bartram, 2011;Bartram, 2013;Erlandhagen, 2011;Nikolova and Graham, 2015;Stillman et al, 2015) and whether migration affects the well-being of receiving and sending-country populations (Akay et al, 2014;Betz and Simpson, 2013;Borraz et al, 2008). 2007), physical health (Diener and Chan, 2011), sociability, quality of social relationships, social capital, and social behaviour (De Neve et al, 2013;Guven, 2011), as well as a greater probability of getting hired and promoted and receiving higher levels of education and income (De Neve and Oswald, 2012).…”