(2024):
Gender differences in migration decision making.
[New knowledge on migration, development and policy, Oxford, 24/06/2024 - 26/06/2024].
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I Do(n’t) Have a Choice: Gender and Migration Decision Making in a Quantitative Micro-perspective
Project Directors
Dr. Sandra Morgenstern
Research question/goal:
This research project will investigate what determines the shift in gender imbalances in migration at the micro level. More specifically, the overall research question is: how do unequal contextual factors in origin and destination alter gender (im)balances in migration decision making? The project is divided into three work packages. The first work package follows the idea that the various operationalizations of migration decision making measure different nuances of the concept and argues that these are linked to gender. I re-examine existing evidence with a meta-analysis and a Probing Experiment and put shed a new light on it. The second work package takes an origin country perspective and investigates how gendered social norms are linked to migration decision making. The third work package focusses on the influence of the potential destination country. It studies to what extent and by what means gendered labour demand and ungendered migration policies of the destination country shape migration decision making in origin. To study the second and third work package, I apply survey experiments and combine the results with structural factors. All experiments are implemented in three countries from the different key geographic areas of the ‘European Neighbourhood’ (North Africa, South-Eastern Balkans, Eastern Europe).
Current stage:
This year’s central milestone was the publication of a manuscript in which the project’s new theoretical argument was empirically tested for the first time using secondary data, marking an important step towards establishing its broader applicability. In addition, a full project proposal for external funding was prepared and submitted. Supported by a research assistant, we have also begun the extensive data collection that will form a core component of the planned empirical analysis.
Publications
Presentations
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(2023): Quantitative measurements of migration decision making: How a more differentiated measurement perspective provides new insights on gender imbalances. [20th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Warsaw, 03/07/2023 - 06/07/2023]. More