The role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant decision-making in transit

Katie Kuschminder () and Khalid Koser ()
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Katie Kuschminder: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, and European University Institute
Khalid Koser: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University

No 2017-022, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: This paper examines the role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant decision-making factors for onwards migration or stay in Greece and Turkey. In this paper we distinguish migration-specific policies from migration-relevant policies in transit and destination countries, and in each case distinguish favourable policies from adverse policies. We test this categorisation through an original survey of 1,056 migrants in Greece and Turkey from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria collected in 2015. The results indicate that, in transit countries, the policies that most strongly influence migrants' decision-making are adverse migration-specific and migration-relevant policies. By contrast, in destination countries favourable migration-specific policies appear to be more important than migration-relevant policies there in determining the choice of destination.

Keywords: migration policies; transit migration; irregular migration; Greece; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 F22 F66 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-05-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-mig and nep-ure
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