Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: African Migrants in the Spotlight

Didier Ruedin
Additional contact information
Didier Ruedin: Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland / African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Social Inclusion, 2021, vol. 9, issue 1, 182-185

Abstract: This thematic issue examines questions of decision-making under limited (and contradictory) information, focusing on migration decisions. Migrants are far from a homogenous population, but they commonly use narratives as heuristics. We observe much agency among migrants to pursue migration plans, with migration decisions best understood as chains of multiple decisions rather than simple push-pull or two-step models.

Keywords: Africa; decision-making; immigration; narratives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/4076 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cog:socinc:v9:y:2021:i:1:p:182-185

DOI: 10.17645/si.v9i1.4076

Access Statistics for this article

Social Inclusion is currently edited by Mariana Pires

More articles in Social Inclusion from Cogitatio Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by António Vieira () and IT Department ().