Mexican Migrants to the US: What Do Unrealized Migration Intentions Tell Us About Gender Inequalities?

Chort, Isabelle

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.036

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“…prospects than that of men (see also Chort, 2014). Young, high skilled and employed women have a higher chance of expressing an intention to move abroad, yet especially young Muslim women and those with a per capita household income in the 20 percent bottom percentile are preparing to do so in the near future.…”

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Female migration: A way out of discrimination?

Ruyssen

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2018

Journal of Development Economics

101

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In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Making use of unique individual level data, we track women's intention and preparation to migrate from 148 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how individual perceptions of gender discrimination can foster or impede female migration across countries. We perform extensive robustness checks to mitigate concerns about potential threats to identification posed by measurement error and unobservables. Our evidence indicates that women who do not feel treated with respect and dignity have a higher incentive to migrate abroad. The likelihood that these migration intentions are turned into actual preparations, however, depends on more traditional determinants such as household income, network effects and family obligations. Furthermore, we also show that more intense gender imbalances in economic and political opportunities prevent women from actually moving abroad.

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“…Indeed, while hundreds of millions of women worldwide would be willing to leave their homelands and start a new life somewhere else, many of them may never actually set off because of economic and/or personal circumstances (Esipova et al, 2011), among which gender imbalances might play a role (see e.g. Chort, 2014).…”

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Female migration: A way out of discrimination?

Ruyssen

Salomone

2018

Journal of Development Economics

101

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“…Studies of the 1980s in the Philippines showed an ambiguous link between migration intentions and actual migration (Card, 1982;De Jong, et al 1985;Gardner, et al 1985); a recent study in the Netherlands highlighted the link between voiced intentions to migrate and a subsequent move to another country (van Dalen, Henkens, 2013). There are also differences in relations between intentions and behaviors among different population groups: for example, analyzing the relationship between the Mexicans' migration plans and US migration, Chort noted that men are more likely to realize their migration intentions than women (Chort, 2014). It is vital to study migration plans and intentions, since even if they are not fully implemented, they are associated with other behaviors -remittances, for example (Wolff, 2015).…”

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Youth with a Migrant Background: Are They Willing to Stay in Russia?

2019

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In the context of current demographic situation in Russia, migration is considered one of the most efficient ways of population maintenance if not upsurge. Labour migrants coming to Russia are mostly young people. Moreover, in recent years, the youth who grew up in migrant families -the so called second generation migrants, the 1.5 generation migrants, and migrants of other more fractional categories -are becoming increasingly important. According to the international research, migration plans of these groups of young people can, to a varying extent, include the intentions to return to their or their parents' country of origin, higher instability being their distinctive feature. In light of this, the issue of the-youth-withmigrant-background's willingness to plan their future in Russia and, thus, their potential to be the resource for correcting the demographic situation is getting urgent. Basing on qualitative interviews and online surveys, this article considers the issue of how various groups of youth with a migrant background view plans of their future life in Russia and what these plans are connected with. Less than a half of the first generation migrants are willing to stay in Russia, whereas the majority of the second and 1.5 generation migrants plan to live in Russia in future. The factors associated with orientation towards Russia are the respondents' age at their first migration to Russia and at the moment of the survey, social ties and identification attitudes. They are significant for both groups. However, there are differences as well: for migrants of the second and 1.5 generations the age at their migration to Russia is less important than their feeling of belonging to Russia, whereas these are legal statuses and documents that are decisive for the first generation migrants. Nonetheless, migration plans among youth with migrant a background are malleable, which opens up the receiving state's opportunities to attract and retain this group.

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“…In other words, young people anticipate net gains from migration that are on average higher than those anticipated by older people. They are therefore less sensitive to uncertainties about living conditions in the region or 1 See Chort (2014) for evidence on the relationship between intentions to move and actual migration in the case of Mexico. country in which they are thinking of settling.…”

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“…10. In line with this theoretical framework, most existing studies on migration intentions consider individual human capital or socio-demographic characteristics such as gender, age, education, work experience, employment status and language skills as fundamental determinants (see, among others, Avato, 2009;Cai et al, 2014;Chort, 2014;Fouarge and Ester, 2007;Liebig and Souza-Poza, 2004;and van Dalen and Henkens, 2008). Using micro-data covering 23 countries and approximately 28,000 individuals collected by the 1995 International Social Survey Programme and including a question on willingness to move, Liebig and Souza-Poza (2004) find that young, highly-educated, single males constitute the most mobile group.…”

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