TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tjaden, Jasper
T1  - Risky journeys
T2  - International migration
N2  - In response to well-documented harms inflicted on irregular migrants attempting to travel from West Africa to Europe, various actors have scaled up information interventions to counter misinformation by smuggling networks and facilitate safe migration decisions. Many interventions include information on the potential dangers involved in migration. However, there is a striking lack of empirical evidence assessing a key assumption of campaign effectiveness, that is the relationship between risk perceptions and the decision to migrate irregularly. This study contributes an empirical account based on two independently collected surveys in Senegal and Guinea. Consistent with rational choice theories on migration decisions under uncertainty, the results suggest that higher risk perceptions are consistently and strongly associated with reduced intentions to migrate irregularly. Yet, the explanatory power of risk perceptions depends on context and is generally less important than structural and socio-economic factors.
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62514
SN  - 0020-7985
SN  - 1468-2435
VL  - 61
IS  - 2
SP  - 212
EP  - 225
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  -