Refugee or Internally Displaced Person? (ICPSR 1319)

Version Date: Jul 22, 2005

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Principal Investigator(s):
Will H. Moore, Florida State University. Department of Political Science; Stephen M. Shellman, University of Georgia. Department of International Affairs

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01319.v1

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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.

Citation

Moore, Will H., and Shellman, Stephen M. Refugee or Internally Displaced Person? Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-07-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01319.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES 0099313.)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Data Collection Notes

  1. (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.

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Original Release Date

2005-07-22

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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

  • Moore, Will H., and Stephen M. Shellman. Refugee or Internally Displaced Person?. ICPSR01319-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-07-22. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01319.v1

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