Religiosity and Migration Aspirations among Mexican Youth

Hoffman, Steven; Marsiglia, Flavio F.; Ayers, Stephanie L.

doi:10.1007/s12134-014-0342-8

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“…Hoffman, Marsiglia, and Ayers made a clear distinction between the influence of internal and external religiosity towards the migration intentions, finding that an increased level of external religiosity among them has a negative effect on the desire to leave the country and move to the United States. By contrast, a higher internal religiosity has a positive influence on their migration intentions because of a sense of divine protection that will ease the integration in a foreign society [57].…”

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confidence: 94%

Exploring the Influence of Personal Motivations, Beliefs and Attitudes on Students’ Post-Graduation Migration Intentions: Evidence from Three Major Romanian Universities

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Nowadays, when there is much concern about the demographic decline of Europe and the stringent need for public policies that support intelligent, sustainable, and inclusive growth in times of population ageing, this study aims to validate several hypotheses regarding the post-graduation migration intentions of students in economics. To analyse these intentions in the context of Romanian yearly increases of out-migration flows to Western countries, the answers to the questionnaire used for this study were obtained from three important Romanian universities. Using georeferencing, neural networks-based data mining, and two types of regression analysis, the results represent a relevant contribution to the limited body of literature. They empirically show that motivations and attitudes towards a meritocratic environment for professional advancement, and individual freedom are positive key factors for students’ migration intentions after graduation. In addition, the paper emphasises the secondary role of religiosity and intergenerational transfer of parental migration experience. It also finds that, although the income level has some influence on these intentions, its role is far less important than the one emphasised in the specific literature, which leads us to the conclusion that non-economic motivations matter more than the economic ones for the potential decision to migrate after graduation.

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Section: Hypothesis 2 (H2)mentioning

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Exploring the Influence of Personal Motivations, Beliefs and Attitudes on Students’ Post-Graduation Migration Intentions: Evidence from Three Major Romanian Universities

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“…Wuliji, Carter and Bates (2009) have found that long-term migration is more common for males. A study in Mexico showed that men had a greater desire to work and live in the USA than women (Hoffman, 2014;Hoffman, Marsiglia & Ayers, 2015;Kandel & Massey, 2002). Another study showed that men in general were 1.8 times more likely to migrate than women (Eliason et al, 2014).…”

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Gender, Rootedness, Normative Beliefs and Emigration Intentions of Slovak University Students

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Benka

Hricová

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The aim of this article is to explore normative beliefs (descriptive, injunctive, personal, subjective), rootedness (desire for change, home/family satisfaction) and their interactions in relation to emigration intentions among university students. Binary logistic regression was used to analyse the data obtained from 375 Slovak university students (75.5% females, mean age 22.9, SD=3.0). The analysis showed that personal normative beliefs and desire for change were significantly positively associated with emigration intentions. A subjective normative belief about friends, a descriptive normative belief about family, a descriptive normative belief about students, and home/family satisfaction contributed to the probability of having emigration intentions only among females. The interaction analysis showed that a lower level of a personal normative belief among females and males, a descriptive normative belief about family among females and a subjective normative belief about friends among females increased the probability of not having emigration intentions, especially among those with a lower level of desire for change. These findings could help to understand the possibilities for preventing ‘brain drain’, especially regarding its psychological aspects.

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“…22Migration intentions have already been the topic of a growing scientific literature. (See, for instance, Becerra 2012; Hoffman, Marsiglia, and Ayers 2015; Falco and Rotondi 2016; Migali and Scipioni 2019.) Falco and Rotondi (2016) show that migration intentions are correlated with actual migrations flows.…”

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The Internetization of International Migration

Pesando¹,

Rotondi²,

Stranges³

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Population & Development Rev

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The Internet has revolutionized our economies, societies, and everyday lives. Many social phenomena are no longer the same as they were in the pre-Internet era: they have been "Internetized." We define the Internetization of international migration, and we investigate it by exploring the links between the Internet and migration outcomes all along the migration path, from migration intentions to actual migration. Our analyses leverage a number of sources, both at the micro-and the macro-level, including the Gallup World Poll, the Arab Barometer, data from the International Telecommunication Union, the Italian population register, and unique register data from a migrant reception center in Southern Italy. We also distinguish between economic migrants-those who leave their country of origin with the aim of seeking better economic opportunities elsewhere-and political migrants-those who are forced to leave their countries of origin for political or conflict-related reasons. Our findings point to a consistently positive relationship between the diffusion of the Internet, migration intentions, and migration behaviors, supporting the idea that the Internet is not necessarily a driving force of migration per se, but rather an enabling "supportive agent." These associations are particularly relevant for economic migrants, at least for migration intentions. Further analyses underscore the importance of the Internet in providing a key informational channel which helps to define clearer migration trajectories.

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Religiosity and Migration Aspirations among Mexican Youth

Cited by 18 publications

References 58 publications

Exploring the Influence of Personal Motivations, Beliefs and Attitudes on Students’ Post-Graduation Migration Intentions: Evidence from Three Major Romanian Universities

Exploring the Influence of Personal Motivations, Beliefs and Attitudes on Students’ Post-Graduation Migration Intentions: Evidence from Three Major Romanian Universities

Gender, Rootedness, Normative Beliefs and Emigration Intentions of Slovak University Students

The Internetization of International Migration

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