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Replication Data for: Measuring Racial Bias in International Migration Flows

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Title Replication Data for: Measuring Racial Bias in International Migration Flows
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7PAAA3
 
Creator Rosenberg, Andrew
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Are international migration flows racially biased? Despite widespread consensus that racism and xenophobia affect migration processes, no measure exists to provide systematic evidence on this score. In this research note, I construct such a measure—the migration deviation. Migration deviations are the difference between the observed migration between states, and the flow that we would predict based on a racially blind model that includes a wide variety of political and economic factors. Using this measure, I conduct a descriptive analysis and provide evidence that migrants from majority black states migrate far less than we would expect under a racially blind model. These results pave a new way for scholars to study international racial inequality.
 
Subject Social Sciences
International migration, Racism, Inequality
 
Contributor Prins, Brandon