Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?

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Autor(a) principal: Bah, Tijan L.
Data de Publicação: 2023
Outros Autores: Batista, Cátia, Gubert, Flore, Mckenzie, David
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/159035
Resumo: We thank the editor and two anonymous referees for helpful comments, our formal discussant Giacomo Battiston and participants in various seminars for comments on the results, the migration experts and Gambian stakeholders who provided predictions of our treatment effects, Mam Jarra Njie and Vitor Cavalcanti for excellent research assistance and support of field activities, YAIM, and the Ministry of Youths and Sports, Gambian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, The Gambian Migrant Associations in Senegal and Italy, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This work was supported by the European Union grant number AMIF-2017-AG-INFO 824432. The content represents the views of the authors only and is their sole responsibility. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains. Ethical approval was granted by the Nova School of Business and Economics on March 1, 2019. The study was pre-registered in the AEA RCT registry as AEARCTR-0003998 on March 2019. http://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3998.
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spelling Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?Cash transferInformation interventionsIrregular migrationMigration deterrenceRandomized experimentVocational trainingWe thank the editor and two anonymous referees for helpful comments, our formal discussant Giacomo Battiston and participants in various seminars for comments on the results, the migration experts and Gambian stakeholders who provided predictions of our treatment effects, Mam Jarra Njie and Vitor Cavalcanti for excellent research assistance and support of field activities, YAIM, and the Ministry of Youths and Sports, Gambian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, The Gambian Migrant Associations in Senegal and Italy, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This work was supported by the European Union grant number AMIF-2017-AG-INFO 824432. The content represents the views of the authors only and is their sole responsibility. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains. Ethical approval was granted by the Nova School of Business and Economics on March 1, 2019. The study was pre-registered in the AEA RCT registry as AEARCTR-0003998 on March 2019. http://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3998.Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and a key policy concern. A cluster-randomized experiment with 3641 young men from 391 settlements in The Gambia is used to test three approaches to reducing risky migration: providing better information and testimonials about the risks of the journey, facilitating migration to a safer destination by providing information and assistance for migration to Dakar, and offering vocational skill training to enhance domestic employment opportunities. Current migration to Senegal was increased by both the Dakar facilitation and vocational training treatments, partially crowding out internal migration. The vocational training treatment reduced intentions to migrate the backway and the number of steps taken toward moving. However, the backway migration rate from The Gambia collapsed, even in the control group, resulting in no space for a treatment effect on irregular migration from any of the three interventions.NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE)RUNBah, Tijan L.Batista, CátiaGubert, FloreMckenzie, David2023-10-18T22:22:20Z2023-102023-10-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article27application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/159035eng0304-3878PURE: 71372509https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103153metadata only accessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T05:41:30Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/159035Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:57:22.495868Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?
title Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?
spellingShingle Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?
Bah, Tijan L.
Cash transfer
Information interventions
Irregular migration
Migration deterrence
Randomized experiment
Vocational training
title_short Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?
title_full Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?
title_fullStr Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?
title_full_unstemmed Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?
title_sort Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce "backway" migration from The Gambia?
author Bah, Tijan L.
author_facet Bah, Tijan L.
Batista, Cátia
Gubert, Flore
Mckenzie, David
author_role author
author2 Batista, Cátia
Gubert, Flore
Mckenzie, David
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv NOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE)
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Bah, Tijan L.
Batista, Cátia
Gubert, Flore
Mckenzie, David
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Cash transfer
Information interventions
Irregular migration
Migration deterrence
Randomized experiment
Vocational training
topic Cash transfer
Information interventions
Irregular migration
Migration deterrence
Randomized experiment
Vocational training
description We thank the editor and two anonymous referees for helpful comments, our formal discussant Giacomo Battiston and participants in various seminars for comments on the results, the migration experts and Gambian stakeholders who provided predictions of our treatment effects, Mam Jarra Njie and Vitor Cavalcanti for excellent research assistance and support of field activities, YAIM, and the Ministry of Youths and Sports, Gambian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, The Gambian Migrant Associations in Senegal and Italy, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This work was supported by the European Union grant number AMIF-2017-AG-INFO 824432. The content represents the views of the authors only and is their sole responsibility. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information it contains. Ethical approval was granted by the Nova School of Business and Economics on March 1, 2019. The study was pre-registered in the AEA RCT registry as AEARCTR-0003998 on March 2019. http://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/3998.
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