The Role of Migration Policy Changes in Europe for Return Migration                     to Senegal

Flahaux, Marie‐Laurence

doi:10.1111/imre.12248

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“…6 Assuming that these remigrations are returns, these findings may illustrate that unstable sociopolitical and economic situations, including contexts of violence, at origin are likely to discourage migrants’ remigration. 7 They are also consistent with recent studies that underlined restrictive migration policies’ role in remigration decisions, especially for sub-Saharan African migrants, who are all the less likely to return as the possibility of moving back to the destination country is uncertain (Flahaux 2017).…”

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confidence: 81%

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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confidence: 81%

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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“…While naturalization tends to deter return intentions (Bettin, Cela, and Fokkema 2018), citizenship facilitates intra-EU onward migration, especially to the UK (Ahrens, Kelly, and van Liempt 2016; Mas Giralt 2017). On the other hand, migration restrictions seem to encourage long-term settlement, as immigrants are less likely to risk leaving the host country if returning would be difficult (Czaika and de Haas 2017; Flahaux 2017). In that case, naturalized immigrants may be more likely to temporarily return since they would be able to come back to France more easily.…”

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confidence: 99%

An Intergenerational Perspective on (Re)migration: Return and Onward Mobility Intentions across Immigrant Generations

Caron

2019

International Migration Review

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This article compares the prevalence and determinants of international mobility intentions across immigrant generations (G1, G1.5, G2, and G2.5), using French survey data. Two types of migration intentions are analyzed: (a) return to the (parents’) origin country and (b) onward migration to a third country. Results highlight migration intentions’ intergenerational variation and underlying logics. The probability to state return intentions is larger for G1 yet surprisingly similar to the stated return intentions for G2. By contrast, G2.5 (one immigrant and one French native parent) stand out as they are primarily characterized by onward migration intentions and are significantly less likely to consider “returning” to their sole immigrant parents’ origin country. Echoing the conceptual framework of “reactive transnationalism” or “reactive ethnicity,” the specific determinant of G2 return intentions appears to be their perception of discrimination. These findings show the value of (a) disaggregating the traditional first versus second generation dichotomy to understand the complexity of migration intentions and (b) including countries other than the parental homeland when studying second-generation transnational practices. More broadly, the article contributes to a better understanding of integration mechanisms by using migration intentions not only as proxies for population movements but also as a valuable framework providing empirical insights into immigrants’ personal relationship to both the country of residence and expected destination.

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“…2). Previous research on the Mexican, Congolese, and Senegalese contexts has shown that tougher conditions of entry and stay tend to deter migrants' return (Flahaux 2015;Flahaux 2017;Massey et al 2002;Massey and Pren 2012). There are two possible explanations.…”

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Three sub-Saharan migration systems in times of policy restriction

Beauchemin

Flahaux

Schoumaker

2020

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This paper reviews new evidence on the trends and patterns of migration between Africa and Europe since the mid-1970s, and discusses their congruency with the changing context of migration policy. Using data from the Determinants of International Migration (DEMIG) and the Migration between Africa and Europe (MAFE) projects, we compare flows and policies of three African and six European destination countries (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Senegal, on the one hand; and Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK, on the other). The paper focuses on topics that quantitative studies usually overlook due to the lack of data, namely the propensity to out-migrate, legal status at entry, routes of migration, and propensity to return. We show that times of restrictions in Europe do not correspond to less African out-migration, but rather to more unauthorized migration and fewer returns. We further show that trends in African migration differ greatly between historical and new destination countries in Europe.

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The Role of Migration Policy Changes in Europe for Return Migration to Senegal

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

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

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

An Intergenerational Perspective on (Re)migration: Return and Onward Mobility Intentions across Immigrant Generations

Three sub-Saharan migration systems in times of policy restriction

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