Remigration intentions and migrants' behavior

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Machado, Joël; Wahba, Jackline

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.10.018

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“…The third argument is that the perception of discrimination in the host country may influence the intention of migrants to return (Chabé-Ferret, Machado and Wahba, 2018).…”

Section: Socio-cultural Integration and Its Potential Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Socio-Cultural Integration on Return Intentions: Evidence from a Survey on Romanian Migrants

Gherghina

Plopeanu

Necula

2020

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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This article analyzes the impact of socio-cultural integration on migrants' intention to return to their country of origin. It distinguishes between the potential effects of inter-ethnic relations, language proficiency and perception of discrimination as components of integration. It uses individual-level data collected through an original survey among Romanian migrants in January 2018. It aims to test the effects of socio-cultural integration against those of alternative explanations provided in the literature. The findings indicate that the perception of discrimination, assessment of public institutions' performance and belonging feelings are important predictors for return intentions.

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“…The third argument is that the perception of discrimination in the host country may influence the intention of migrants to return (Chabé-Ferret, Machado and Wahba, 2018).…”

Section: Socio-cultural Integration and Its Potential Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Socio-Cultural Integration on Return Intentions: Evidence from a Survey on Romanian Migrants

Gherghina

Plopeanu

Necula

2020

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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“…Dustmann and Mestres (2010), Gashi and Adnett (2015), Hinks and Davies (2015), Chabé‐Ferret et al. (2016), and Collier et al. (2018) provide support for the proposition that return migrants were more likely to have remitted and made investments in their home country while abroad.…”

Section: Return Migration and Employment Choice: Theory And Evidencementioning

confidence: 95%

Return migrants in Albania: The determinants of “entrepreneurial gain”

Alili

Adnett

2021

Review Development Economics

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Return migrants bring the prospects of an entrepreneurship gain to their country of origin. In this paper the key determinants of returnees becoming entrepreneurs in Albania are investigated. The survey data utilized enables returnees’ characteristics before their migration, during their stay abroad, and after returning to be assessed as facilitators of entrepreneurship. There is evidence of significant entrepreneurial gain among Albanian returnees. The incidence of self‐employment after return was 2–3 times higher than it had been before migration and was nearly 15 times higher than the percentage of self‐employed in the Albanian labor force as a whole. However, the analysis suggests that self‐employment is a poor proxy for entrepreneurship among returnees. There is a need to distinguish between the planned/opportunity self‐employed (the entrepreneurs) and the unintended/necessity self‐employed, the latter largely becoming self‐employed as a means of addressing economic hardship. We find that women, those trained during migration and returnees who remitted more per year, were more likely to become entrepreneurs after returning, whereas men, those in self‐employment before leaving, those spending more time abroad, those who were forced to return, migrants who returned back to their place of birth and residence, and those who returned from Greece, were more likely to be self‐employed.

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“…It is always possible that an existing propensity to remigrate affects migrants’ decisions to participate in the labor market. Migrants who have already decided to remigrate may, for example, be more likely to invest in their origin country and less in the host society, adapting their current economic behaviors to their future departure (Chabé-Ferret, Machado, and Wahba 2018). Nevertheless, our core aim in this article is not to assess the average causal effect of migrants’ employment status at destination on their decision to remigrate but to provide insights on how this relationship varies according to migrants’ initial selection, as the next section lays out.…”

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High Selection, Low Success: The Heterogeneous Effect of Migrants’ Access to Employment on Their Remigration

Caron

Ichou

2020

International Migration Review

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This article reconciles contrasting findings on the effect of access to employment on remigration by showing that this effect is actually heterogeneous and depends on migrants’ initial educational selection from the origin country. Combining longitudinal data from England and Wales (1971–2011) with data on educational attainment distributions in migrants’ origin countries, we find that the impact of being out of a job (unemployed or inactive) on the probability to remigrate is larger among migrants who were initially more positively selected in terms of educational attainment. This interaction effect appears stronger for male and recent migrants. Thus, in addition to migrants’ access to employment in the host country, the mismatch between migrants’ initial selection — that partly captures their premigration expectations — and their employment status at destination helps explain remigration behaviors.

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Remigration intentions and migrants' behavior

Cited by 26 publications

References 30 publications

The Impact of Socio-Cultural Integration on Return Intentions: Evidence from a Survey on Romanian Migrants

The Impact of Socio-Cultural Integration on Return Intentions: Evidence from a Survey on Romanian Migrants

Return migrants in Albania: The determinants of “entrepreneurial gain”

High Selection, Low Success: The Heterogeneous Effect of Migrants’ Access to Employment on Their Remigration

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