Migration Drivers and Sources of Inequalities

Abstract

While studies of migration drivers and scholarship on inequality often highlight structural, economic and political factors in determining individual choices and individual migrants’ integration capacities, this panel takes a bottom-up perspective. Papers focus on the individual level to explain the reasons of why people migrate, of why they prefer certain destinations over others, and how and why certain migrants mobilize more than others. By analyzing migration drivers and sources of inequality from a migrants’ perspective and focusing on a large variety of countries, this panel contributes to scholarship on the agency of individual migrants.

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Who cares? How political reception contexts shape immigrants’ location decisions	View Paper Details
Beyond financial well-being: Explaining the migration of rich Chinese to Western countries	View Paper Details
Climate Change Literacy and Migration: Micro-Level Evidence from Africa	View Paper Details
Soft skills and immigrants’ economic outcomes in Europe: evidence from PIAAC data	View Paper Details
Unpacking the agency of refugee women: The case of Afghan refugee women in Turkey	View Paper Details