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South-South refugee movements : do pull factors play a role?
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EUI RSC; Working Paper; 2022/60; Migration Policy Centre
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LANATI, Mauro, THIELE, Rainer, South-South refugee movements : do pull factors play a role?, EUI RSC, Working Paper, 2022/60, Migration Policy Centre - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74936
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Studies analysing the pattern of international refugee flows have so far focussed on movements to OECD destinations, even though the vast majority of refugees live in non-OECD countries. Employing a standard gravity model of international migration, we fill this research gap by investigating the impact of destination country characteristics on south-south refugee movements over the period 2004-2019. Our findings suggest that refugees tend to move to safe neighbouring countries but also positively respond to local pull factors such as relatively high per-capita income levels and the availability of education and health services when choosing their country of destination. Donors have the ability to affect the direction of south-south refugee movements by investing in the social infrastructure of potential destination countries.