International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America

Weitzman, Abigail; Huss, Katarina; Blanton, Matthew; Swindle, Jeffrey; Camacho, Gilbert Brenes; Robles, Arodys

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“…Legal, economic, and social incorporation, in turn, have implications for MNPs' evolving family dynamics [26,27]. Multiple qualitative studies, for instance, document that displaced families' stress adjustment processes ebb and flow over the course of years [39,44], alongside changes in parents' and children's legal and socioeconomic circumstances [51]. These stress adjustment processes unfold between multiple family members who have divergent experiences in the same place abroad, but MNPs' transnational family structure often also changes with time.…”

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“…This means that many do not have extensive social networks to draw on abroad [ 49 , 50 ]. Even when they do, their prolonged hardships and stressors can strain their relationships with kin who live in the same destination context [ 49 , 51 ]. Institutional supports, such as NGOs and public ministries, too, are often stretched too thin to support MNP with regularity [ 52 ].…”

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Design and implementation of an intensive panel survey with refugees and other migrants in need of protection in Costa Rica

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Morse

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PLoS ONE

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Over the last decade, the global population of refugees and other migrants in need of international protection (MNP) has more than doubled. Despite their rapid growth, panel data collection among MNP remains rare, leaving scholars with few data sources to draw on to understand dynamic changes in their social, economic, legal, or health circumstances. With that paucity in mind, we developed and piloted the Encuesta de Refugiados: Experiencias Sociales y Salud (ERESS), a weekly panel survey conducted with MNP living in Costa Rica. To our knowledge, this panel constitutes one of the first weekly surveys with MNP anywhere in the world. Here, we describe the overall study design, sample recruitment and retention, and key descriptive findings. We show that retaining demographically and socioeconomically diverse MNP in intensive panel surveys is possible and that doing so reveals valuable insights into dynamic changes in their incorporation, family dynamics, and health and wellbeing. By offering a summary of our field experiences and central methodological findings, we highlight the potential benefits and challenges of collecting intensive panel data with MNP, as scholars increasingly seek to understand their pre- and post-migration trajectories and relationships between the two.

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Design and implementation of an intensive panel survey with refugees and other migrants in need of protection in Costa Rica

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Blanton,

Morse

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad

Weitzman,

Huss

2024

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International migration is increasingly characterized by the need to evade threats to survival. Nevertheless, demographic understandings of how families—rather than individuals alone—decide to migrate or separate in response to threats remain limited. Focusing on the recent humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, we analyze 2012–2016 data on Venezuelans in Venezuela and 2018–2020 data on UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)-registered Venezuelans in nine receiving countries to illuminate the evolution of threats Venezuelans sought to evade, how threat evasion transformed households away from previous norms, the selection of migrants into different receiving countries and household structures, and demographic disparities in migrants’ odds of reporting changes to their household because of specific migration-related processes (e.g., leaving someone in Venezuela, leaving someone in another country). Results underscore a simultaneous escalation of economic, safety, and political concerns that informed Venezuelans’ increasing intentions to out-migrate. Where Venezuelans migrated and who ended up in their households abroad varied by demographic background and migration experiences. Among UNHCR-registered Venezuelans, 43% left family members in Venezuela, and more than 10% left or were left behind by members in another country. Such household separations, however, were unevenly distributed across factors such as age, gender, and country of reception.

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International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America

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Design and implementation of an intensive panel survey with refugees and other migrants in need of protection in Costa Rica

Design and implementation of an intensive panel survey with refugees and other migrants in need of protection in Costa Rica

The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad

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