On November 18, we were very proud to welcome Prof. @Catia Batista from Nova School of Business and Economics in the framework of our lecture series about Cross-Border Labour Mobility.
Prof. Batista gave a thorough insight on how COVID19 has changed migration intention from the Gambia. They’ve found that about one-third of young males expressed less intention to migrate to Europe. Most of the individuals changing their migration intentions were either i) unsure pre-pandemic, ii) poorer individuals who are no longer able to afford to migrate because of increased costs and fallen remittance income. The pandemic has also comparably reduced the intention to migrate to neighboring Senegal.
However, the overall desire to migrate to Europe remains high, stressing the need for legal migration pathways to divert migrants from the risks of backway migration.
Want to know more?
Bah, Tijan and Batista, Catia and Gubert, Flore and McKenzie, David John, How Has Covid-19 Affected the Intention to Migrate Via the Backway to Europe and to a Neighboring African Country? Survey Evidence and a Salience Experiment in the Gambia.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3846681 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3846681
This lecture series is organised by Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) & University of Luxembourg, in the framework of 2 Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR), Luxembourg funded projects: ACROSS and MINLAB.
Next lecture will feature Prof. Joan Monras on 23 December.
Registration is mandatory, please send an email to noemie.courtois@uni.lu
