Friday, April 12 / 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM   •   Gallier AB

Session 159:
Networks and Risk Aversion: Micro-Level Drivers of Migration Patterns

Chair: Rebecca L. Clark, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH
Discussant: Jennifer E. Glick, Arizona State University

  1. The Impact of State-Level Immigration Enforcement on Deportees' Human Rights and Migratory Plans • Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University ; Susan Pozo, Western Michigan University

  2. The Role of Risk Aversion in Rural Household Migration Decisions: The Case of Indonesia • Hillary Caruthers, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  3. Social Capital, Resources and Context: The Impact of Migrant Networks in Senegalese, Ghanaian and Congolese Migration to Europe • Mao-Mei Liu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra ; Sorana Toma, University of Oxford

  4. Networks versus Need: Drivers of Urban Out-Migration in the Brazilian Amazon • Heather F. Randell, Brown University

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