The gendered consequences of COVID-19 for internal migration

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dc.creatorMueller, Valerie
dc.creatorPáez-Bernal, Camila
dc.creatorGray, Clark
dc.creatorGrépin, Karen A.
dc.date2023-08
dc.date2024-03-14T12:08:49Z
dc.date2024-03-14T12:08:49Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:38:43Z
dc.descriptionScant evidence exists to identify the effects of the pandemic on migrant women and the unique barriers on employment they endure. We merge longitudinal data from mobile phone surveys with subnational data on COVID cases to examine whether women were left more immobile and vulnerable to health risks, relative to men, during the pandemic in Kenya and Nigeria. Each survey interviewed approximately 2000 men and women over three rounds (November 2020–January 2021, March–April 2021, November 2021–January 2022). Linear regression analysis reveals internal migrants are no more vulnerable to knowing someone in their network with COVID. Rather, rural migrant women in Kenya and Nigeria were less vulnerable to transmission through their network, perhaps related to the possible wealth accumulation from migration or acquired knowledge of averting health risks from previous destinations. Per capita exposure to COVID cases hinders the inter-regional migration of women in both countries. Exposure to an additional COVID case per 10,000 people resulted in a decline in women’s interregional migration by 6 and 2 percentage points in Kenya and Nigeria, respectively.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/140011
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/110429
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceMueller, Valerie; Páez-Bernal, Camila; Gray, Clark; and Grépin, Karen. 2023. The gendered consequences of COVID-19 for internal migration. Population Research and Policy Review 42: 495-528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-023-09809-8
dc.subjectdata analysis
dc.subjectdata
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectsurveys
dc.subjectcoronavirus
dc.subjectcovid-19
dc.subjectemployment
dc.subjectvulnerability
dc.subjectcoronavirinae
dc.subjectmen
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectcoronavirus disease
dc.subjectgender analysis
dc.subjecthealth hazards
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleThe gendered consequences of COVID-19 for internal migration
dc.typeJournal Article

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