African Migration: Diversity and Changes

Schoumaker, Bruno; Flahaux, Marie‐Laurence; Beauchemin, Cris; Schans, Djamila; Mazzucato, Valentina; Sakho, Papa

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“…The main data source of empirical data for the book is the Migration between Africa and Europe (MAFE) project. 3 The MAFE project arose to fill a long-running gap in the availability of quantitative data on African migration (Beauchemin 2012(Beauchemin , 2018. In general, the study of migration in many regions of the world has often been hampered by a lack of high-quality data.…”

Section: The Migration Between Africa and Europe (Mafe) Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The MAFE project thus employed a multi-site design, collecting data on both current migrants in European countries and nonmigrants and returned migrants in the country of origin. This design overcomes the limitations of surveys only at origin-such as reliance on proxy respondents-or only at destination-such as the exclusion of non-migrants or returned migrantsand thus avoids sample-selection problems that plague much research on migration (Beauchemin 2012(Beauchemin , 2018.…”

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“…The MAFE project thus used a variety of methods to construct a sample of Senegalese migrants as representative as possible of the population of Senegalese living in each destination country. The main approach in France and Italy was the quota method: using auxiliary data about the population of Senegalese in each destination country, the project set quotas for the number of respondents by different characteristics, including gender, age, region of residence, and socioeconomic status (Beauchemin 2012(Beauchemin , 2018. The project also varied the recruitment methods (via Senegalese associations and snowballing techniques) and places (such as metro stations, hairdressers' shops, and public places) so that the selection biases of each method would, in theory, cancel each other out.…”

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“…First of all, the sampling design purposefully includes both regular and irregular migrants. The Padrón in Spain offered the opportunity to include both documented and undocumented Senegalese migrants in the sample, and the project also made effort in France and Italy to include undocumented migrants in the sample in order to avoid the biases that excluding this population would bring about (Beauchemin 2012(Beauchemin , 2018. Descriptive statistics in Table 1.1 indicate that the project was successful in including this traditionally hard-to-reach population: across the three European countries, almost 18% of the respondents lacked a residence permit at the time of the survey, while almost 60% had lacked this authorization at some point in the past.…”

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Irregular migration from sub-Saharan Africa in particular has provoked fears of an "invasion" of "fortress Europe" (Collier 2013; Connor 2018; de Haas 2008b). Despite this concern, irregular migration in Europe in general and irregularity among African migrants in particular are poorly understood phenomena. Although a voluminous research literature on undocumented migration exists in sociology, economics, and political science, many studies are limited by reliance on limited variation in contexts of reception and a simplified conceptualization of legal status (

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Section: The Migration Between Africa and Europe (Mafe) Projectmentioning

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“…As expected in the discussion of sampling design (the assignment of household headship in MMP to absent males), more than a third of households are female-headed in MAFE-Senegal, while only between a tenth and a fifth of MMP households are female-headed. These figures are also related to the male-predominant nature of migration out of Senegal, particularly migration to Europe(Liu 2013, Schoumaker et al 2013, Toma and Vause 2014), while by 2010, nearly half of Mexico-born individuals in the U.S. were female (Donato and Gabaccia 2016). Moreover, among both internal and international Senegalese migrants, living apart from their partners is a frequent and long-lasting situation (Baizan et al 2014a).…”

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Prospects for the comparative study of international migration using quasi-longitudinal micro-data

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Riosmena³

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BACKGROUND Longitudinal micro-level data about international migration behavior are notoriously difficult to collect, but data collection efforts have become more frequent in recent years. Comparative research of the patterns and processes of international migration, however, remains quite rare, especially that which compares across regions. OBJECTIVE We highlight the promises and difficulties of comparative international migration research, by offering a detailed comparison of two prominent data collection efforts. METHODS We systematically review existing sources of longitudinal and quasi-longitudinal individual-level and household-level data of international migration. We then compare two widely-used data sources: the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) and the Migration between Africa and Europe project (MAFE). RESULTS Data collection efforts are increasingly diverse, yet public accessibility of data remains limited. Also, comparability of data collected across settings can be complicated. In our MMP-MAFE analysis, we show some ways in which comparability can be achieved. CONCLUSIONS A primary roadblock to international comparative research is that, with some exceptions, the public accessibility of data remains low. Even when data is public and surveys are modeled after one another, comparability is not easy due to necessary trade-offs in adapting surveys to local settings and to developments in the field. CONTRIBUTION We demonstrate that, despite great strides in collecting quasi-longitudinal data of international migration, data accessibility still hinders the study of migration. With regards to comparability, our article provides important lessons for future data collection and analysis efforts that could improve comparability and thus advance understanding of the complex dynamics of international migration.

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Pathways and Consequences of Legal Irregularity

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African Migration: Diversity and Changes

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