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Covid-19 insecurities and migration aspirations
International Interactions ( IF 1.226 ) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 , DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2022.1991919
Miranda Simon 1 , Cassilde Schwartz 2 , David Hudson 3
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ABSTRACT

Using an original survey, this paper examines how pandemic-driven insecurities have affected aspirations to migrate internationally among youth in The Gambia. We find that individuals perceive wide inequalities between their government’s performance and the speed of Covid-19 recovery abroad. However, superior recovery abroad does not have significant effects on aspirations to migrate. Individual and local sources of security are more important: Individuals who were able to maintain their jobs throughout the pandemic are less likely to aspire to move abroad. The insecurity of Covid-19 job loss may be compensated by confidence in one’s government’s ability to tackle the pandemic. This suggests that, in the context of an event that has upended people’s lives, would-be migrants who managed to maintain a source of stability may seek comfort in familiar contexts; even if they appear worse than alternatives abroad.



中文翻译:

Covid-19 的不安全感和移民愿望

摘要

本文使用原始调查研究了大流行驱动的不安全感如何影响冈比亚青年的国际移民愿望。我们发现,个人认为政府的表现与国外 Covid-19 恢复的速度之间存在很大的不平等。然而,国外的良好复苏对移民的愿望没有显着影响。个人和当地的安全来源更为重要:能够在整个大流行期间维持工作的个人不太可能渴望移居国外。Covid-19 失业带来的不安全感可以通过对政府应对这一流行病的能力的信心来弥补。这表明,在一个颠覆人们生活的事件的背景下,设法维持稳定来源的潜在移民可能会在熟悉的环境中寻求安慰;即使它们看起来比国外的替代品更糟糕。

更新日期:2022-01-07
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