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Description & Citation--Study No. 1319

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:1319
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01319
 
Title:Refugee or Internally Displaced Person?
 
Principal Investigator(s):Will H. Moore, Florida State University. Department of Political Science
 
  Stephen M. Shellman, University of Georgia. Department of International Affairs
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation
 
Grant Number:SES 0099313.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The literature on the decision to abandon one's home in the face of violence is dominated by scholarship that implicitly assumes that forced migrants had no choice but to leave. Yet a spate of recent studies adopts a general rational choice framework that identifies new questions and challenges some conventional wisdom. This study builds on that work and breaks new ground by investigating the circumstances that lead some countries to produce a large number of refugees and relatively few internally displaced persons (IDPs) as opposed to a large number of IDPs and relatively few refugees. The investigators present the hypothesis that refugee flows are greater in the face of state (sponsored) genocide/politicide than they are in response to other state coercion, dissident campaigns of violence, or civil wars. It is argued that countries surrounded by poor, authoritarian regimes will produce fewer refugees (relative to IDPs) than those surrounded by wealthy, democratic neighbors. A sample selection model is employed to conduct statistical analyses using data on a global sample of countries for the period 1976-1995.
 
Subject Term(s):authoritarianism, genocide, nations, population migration, refugees, world politics
 
Geographic Coverage:Global
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) The file submitted is mooshel.cps06.zip, which contains the data and program. There is also a readme file. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigators if further information is desired.
 

Methodology

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2005-07-22
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Refugee or Internally Displaced Person?
 

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