Female Genital Mutilation And Migration In Mali. Do Migrants Transfer Social Norms?

Idrissa Diabate and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps
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Abstract: In this paper, we investigate how powerful a mechanism migration is in the transmission of socialnorms, taking Mali and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a case study. Mali has a strong FGMculture and a long-standing history of migration. We use an original household-level database coupledwith census data to analyze the extent to which girls living in villages with high rates of returnmigrants are less prone to FGM. Malians migrate predominantly to other African countries wherefemale circumcision is uncommon (e.g. Côte d'Ivoire) and to countries where FGM is totally banned(France and other developed countries) and where anti-FGM information campaigns frequently targetAfrican migrants. Taking a two-step instrumental variable approach to control for the endogeneity ofmigration decisions, we show that return migrants have a negative and significant influence on FGM.We also show that adults living in villages with return migrants are more in favor of legislation againstFGM.

Keywords: Female Genital Excision; Mali; migration; social transfers; Excision; transferts sociaux (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10-16
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Working Paper: Female genital mutilation and migration in Mali. Do migrants transfer social norms? (2014)
Working Paper: Female Genital Mutilation and Migration in Mali: Do Migrants Transfer Social Norms? (2014)
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