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New Article: At Europe’s frontline: factors determining migrants decision making for onwards migration from Greece and Turkey

30 April, 2019 By Katie Kuschminder

From our study in 2015 on Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Greece in Turkey, this article with Jennifer Waidler has recently been published in Migration and Development.

Abstract

Limited research has been conducted on migrants’ decision making factors in transit and this is an important area of investigation that goes beyond the origin-destination country dichotomy most commonly represented in migrant decision making. This paper examines the decision making factors for onwards migration or stay of migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Syria in Greece and Turkey. This paper is based on a unique dataset of surveys collected with 1056 migrants in Athens and Istanbul from May- July 2015. The decision for onwards migration or stay is examined through a probit regression analysis. Four categories of influencing variables are discussed: the country of origin, current conditions in the transit country, the initial migration destination choice and previous onwards migration attempts. The results demonstrate that first; the majority of respondents in both countries seek to migrate onwards (75% in Greece and 63% in Turkey) and that conditions in the transit country are highly significant in influencing onwards migrate decisions including their current subjective living conditions, employment, experiences of abuse, and speaking the local language. This paper contextualizes the findings and highlight the complexity of factors influencing migrants’ decision making in Greece and Turkey.

 

Filed Under: Blog Article Tagged With: Decision Making, Greece, irregular, transit, Turkey

Katie Kuschminder (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/ UNU-Merit. Read More…

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