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Do migrant social networks shape political attitudes and behavior at home?

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dc.contributor.authorBatista, Cátia
dc.contributor.authorSeither, Julia
dc.contributor.authorVicente, Pedro C.
dc.contributor.institutionNOVA School of Business and Economics (NOVA SBE)
dc.contributor.pblElsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-16T22:42:52Z
dc.date.available2022-03-17T01:31:07Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-01
dc.descriptionFunding sponsor: Princeton University and International Growth Centre
dc.description.abstractWhat is the role of international migrants and, more specifically, of migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and behavior in migrant sending countries? We propose that migration might change social norms for political participation, while it may also improve knowledge about better quality political institutions. Hence, international migration might increase political awareness and participation both by migrants and by other individuals in their networks. To test this hypothesis, we use detailed data on different types of migrant networks, namely geographic, kinship and chatting networks, as well as several different measures of political participation and electoral knowledge – namely, self-reports, behavioral and actual voting measures. These data were purposely collected around the time of the 2009 elections in Mozambique, a country with substantial emigration to neighboring countries and with one of the lowest political participation rates in the southern Africa region. The empirical results show that the number of migrants an individual is in close contact through regular chatting within a village significantly increases political participation of residents in that village – more so than family links to migrants. Our findings are consistent with both improved knowledge about political processes, and increased intrinsic motivation for political participation being transmitted through migrant networks. These results are robust to controlling for self-selection into migration as well as endogenous network formation. Our work is potentially relevant for the many contexts of South-South migration where both countries of origin and destination are imperfect political systems. It shows that even in this context there may be domestic gains arising from international emigration.en
dc.description.versionpreprint
dc.description.versionpublished
dc.format.extent16
dc.format.extent915871
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.01.019
dc.identifier.issn0305-750X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 11848728
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 3408826d-55b2-4549-bd22-2ba1c04c56ef
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85061453374
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dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85061453374
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.subjectDiffusion of political norms
dc.subjectGovernance
dc.subjectInformation
dc.subjectInternational migration
dc.subjectPolitical participation
dc.subjectSocial networks
dc.subjectGeography, Planning and Development
dc.subjectDevelopment
dc.subjectSociology and Political Science
dc.subjectEconomics and Econometrics
dc.subjectSDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
dc.titleDo migrant social networks shape political attitudes and behavior at home?en
dc.typejournal article
degois.publication.firstPage328
degois.publication.lastPage343
degois.publication.titleWorld Development
degois.publication.volume117
dspace.entity.typePublication
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