Project

Policy projections suggest that large numbers of irregular migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa will continue to attempt to make their way to Europe over the next few decades. In response, European countries have made and continue to make significant investments in information campaigns designed to discourage irregular African migration. But are beliefs about migration-related risks, interest in attempting irregular migration, and actual migration decisions responsive to information campaigns highlighting the risks of the migration journey? We provide evidence to help answer these questions using a randomized controlled trial of an information-provision intervention with a representative sample and actual migration among the outcomes of interest. The project takes place in two states—Edo and Delta—in the South-South region of Nigeria, a major Sub-Saharan African source of irregular migrants to Europe.

Project start:
01. January 2020

Project end:
31. December 2024

Project staff:
Bernd Beber PhD, Alexandra Scacco, Macartan Humphreys, Pheliciah Mwachofi, Dean Yang

Project partners:
Innovations for Poverty Action, The University of Michigan, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung