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Author-Name: Kuschminder, Katie
Author-Email: kushminder@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, and European
	 University Institute
Author-Name: Koser, Khalid
Author-Email: koser@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University
Title: The role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant 
	 decision-making in transit
Abstract: This paper examines the role of migration-specific and 
	 migration-relevant policies in migrant decision-making factors for 
	 onwards migration or stay in Greece and Turkey. In this paper we 
	 distinguish migration-specific policies from migration-relevant policies 
	 in transit and destination countries, and in each case distinguish 
	 favourable policies from adverse policies. We test this categorisation 
	 through an original survey of 1,056 migrants in Greece and Turkey from 
	 Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria collected in 2015. The 
	 results indicate that, in transit countries, the policies that most 
	 strongly influence migrants' decision-making are adverse 
	 migration-specific and migration-relevant policies. By contrast, in 
	 destination countries favourable migration-specific policies appear to 
	 be more important than migration-relevant policies there in determining 
	 the choice of destination.
Keywords:  migration policies, transit migration, irregular migration, Greece, Turkey
Classification-JEL: D01, F22, F66, O15
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20170510
Number: 2017-022
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2017/wp2017-022.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2017022